Sentence examples for real seat from inspiring English sources

But critics say the formal consultation process is no subsititution for a real seat at the decision-making table.

They will continue to demand a real seat at the table in a system of democracy and pluralism and they will not take "no" for an answer.

As for the notion of a separation of powers, everyone agrees that the makhzen, the institution centring on the crown, remains the real seat of decision-making.

In the short term, such positioning will remain just talk – though Steinmeier is and would remain foreign minister, Merkel and the chancellery are the real seat of foreign policymaking.

E-22 (not his real seat) never misses a curtain--and he attends more than a hundred musical events a year, including operas, concerts, recitals, and master classes... E-22 is, in his phrase, a "pirating opera queen".

A week ago the former rebel army, now calling itself the Republican Forces, started their descent on Abidjan, still the real seat of power, sweeping all before them in just a few days.But the final assault on the business capital met with fiercer resistance than they had expected.

They want a real rear seat because, research suggests, they are more group-oriented.

The variations-on-a-theme strategy worked well last year, when a fairly simple, insightful stroke -- offering the first Crew Cab in the compact truck segment, with two real seats and four real doors -- lifted sales almost 50percentt.

Real seat-of-the-pants stuff right there!

The seats surrounded and delineated a performance area facing out onto the real seats of the theater.

"It's going to be difficult and long going to make significant progress... considering the weight of the 6 million person Egyptian state [bureaucracy]." Nancy Okail, the Egypt director of Freedom House, added that for those holding the real seats of power there has been "musical chairs, but not real shifts or change".