"So essentially both of them are disenfranchised," Herndon said, adding, "The elderly, people who have trouble going out at night, and people who don't like to talk in groups or be part of groups are also disenfranchised.
Young men in expensive, untucked button-downs, the weekend wear of investment bankers, sat in groups of five, talking loudly.
Panter-Downes described the scene in London: > People gathered in groups everywhere to talk of [the King's] … death, and then immediately of Elizabeth, without altering the tone of their voices, as though she, too had been struck down by some grave illness — the malady of sovereignty, which lasts a lifetime.
Because metric proximity is relative (i.e. it refers to a spatial continuum) and can only be evaluated in relation to some external reference framework, it makes sense to talk about groups of groups in the same way as about groups of clusters.
I recalled not daring to talk to groups of women in Turkey this summer.
If you're speaking with someone or you're talking in a group of people, and up pops the subject of another person in a positive or negative way, be the one to mention something you like about that person.
If you're talking in a group of people, be sure to direct comments at the others just as often, if not more, than you do towards him.
Practicing giving talk in front of groups will help bolster your courage when faced with speaking engagements of any size.
Physical activity was less a focus of talk in the groups than dietary changes.
He and Carl Goldberg, the authority's commissioner and chairman of its redevelopment selection committee, said that one thing became clear in talks with advisory groups of merchants, elected officials and residents of the towns surrounding the Meadowlands: they did not want an automobile racing oval in their midst.
