Pastoral meetings maintain their Recorded Ministers, who also do much of the work of seeing to the relief of the poor, care of properties, and discipline of erring members.
Between meetings maintain a "town square" for the project -- a discussion board, say, or an Evernote notebook, someplace where nuggets of genius can be housed without getting lost.
China, however, which sent a low-level diplomat to the meeting, maintained its position that it opposed new sanctions now.
Republicans at the subcommittee meeting maintained that the appropriations bill was the best venue for hashing out the issue.
The world No.2 had not dropped a set in their four previous hard court meetings and maintained that record with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 success on Rod Laver Arena.
Mr. Fischer said the association was a co-sponsor of the pastor meetings and maintained e-mail contact with 40,000 to 60,000 pastors nationwide, a list that is expanding.
Behind the scenes, people on both sides say, Mr. Esser held more frequent meetings and maintained telephone contacts with Mr. Gent -- conversations in which Mr. Esser spurned offers to negotiate a key job for himself in the combined company if Vodafone prevailed.
An up-to-date listing of these types of meetings is maintained on the APSA Web site.
They felt that they had met demands, held meetings, and maintained a dialogue with the protesters, yet the protests continued.
If a culture of sanctioning private meetings is maintained, Weissman said, it leaves the judgment up to the individuals involved as to whether an ex-parte communication is going to sway them.
