The get-together involved three separate meetings, at each of which fraternal wishes were overshadowed by political differences.
The talks are structured as separate meetings with each party, an effort to avoid the tensions that have hurt previous negotiations.
Many mediators, however, will at some point move to a second stage of separate meetings with each party known as caucuses.
Whatever else the Palestinian and Israeli leaders say to Mr Clinton in their separate meetings with him, each will have to eat some words.
To illustrate, if you have two separate meetings that are near each other, away from your office, on two separate days, you've just lost the commute time to both.
Since three different groups of care professionals (medical receptionists, practice nurses and general practitioners) had played distinctively different roles in organizing and executing the health checks, we conducted a separate meeting for each of these groups so that every participant would feel free to openly express their thoughts and feelings.
The Nets' owner, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, and James L. Dolan, the Madison Square Garden chairman, each held separate meetings with Anthony to woo him and, perhaps increase the other's price in trying to securing Anthony, the Nuggets' discontented star.
— For two months, after a disputed election, the fight for control of the Chukchansi Indian tribe was a standoff: two groups claimed to be the rightful tribal council, each holding separate meetings and appealing to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for official recognition.
In Geneva at the weekend and a fortnight ago, the format was a dizzying array of "bilaterals", separate meetings between the Iranians and each of the six other countries as well as countless sessions between any two of the six countries.
2. Any number of separate meetings may be held during each session of the Committee.
