"There is a lot of apprehension out there," said Edward Hogan, an environmental lawyer who leads a business round-table group.
He recently flew home to be part of a round-table group organised by Ed Vaizey MP asking questions of how the kind of individuals being recognised in America could have a similar impact at home.
"It pains us a great deal when we read newspaper accounts from abroad saying a lot of lies about our country," Bareng-Batho Kortjaas, an influential sports columnist and talk-radio host known as BBK, told a round-table group of international reporters.
They included enlarging the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council to between 150 and 200 members and having it serve as the interim authority, calling a national conference of respected figures from across the country or establishing a small round-table group that would affirm a process of protecting human rights and drawing up a constitution.
The round-table group reached the following conclusions: Established and evolving best practice has identified, and will continue to identify pre, intra and post ICU causes and modifiers of a poor long-term outcome.
Americans are a generous lot -- having donated $203 billion to nonprofit organizations last year -- said Adam Meyerson, president of the Philanthropy Round Table, a group up of 650 donors.
Well, like King Arthur and the Round Table, a group of wise people gather together every month or so.
He was a member of the Civil War Round Table, a group of 150 history enthusiasts, and was attending one of its conferences at the time of his death.
The Algonquin Round Table – a group of notorious literary figures (mostly critics) who made The Algonquin their daily meeting place – set forth to implement significant literary styles in the early 1900s.
: In June 1919 the hotel became the site of the daily meetings of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of journalists, authors, publicists and actors who gathered to exchange bon mots over lunch in the main dining room.
Homer's false memory of the party the following day (in which he imagines himself as being erudite and witty instead of drunk) is a reference to the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits.
