Sentence examples for kept at the table from inspiring English sources

From the Middle Ages until at least the 16th century, salt was a relatively expensive commodity and was kept at the table in vessels commensurate with this status.

Back in 1980, these were the people who voted Republican, but were kept at the kiddie table, far away from the real levers of power.

The shot clock above that basket did not work, and the score and the official time had to be kept at the scorer's table because the scoreboards did not always work correctly.

The resulting symbol sets would be kept at the transmitters' symbol sets tables and used when the receiver dims it appropriate.

In Fig. 4 the geophysical conditions are kept at the median values listed in Table 1 and the season is somewhat arbitrarily chosen to be mid-April.

"We kept them at the table," the Schumer aide said.

What has kept us at the table and moving toward compromise was our mutual interest in a robust Internet and our recognition that progress would occur only when players from across the Internet space work together.

Whether in the Middle East or in Northern Ireland, the principle is that it's best to keep people at the table, and keep them talking, even if what seems to be actually being agreed could be written on the back of a fag packet and interpreted in different ways.

"You know when you go to your uncle's for Thanksgiving and the kids are kept at one table," says a former staff member.

But I just keep looking at the table.

His job is to keep everyone at the table.