town-meeting

It's not just about soliciting big-ticket donations, schmoozing at a few rubber chicken luncheons, staging farcical town-meeting gripe sessions once or twice a year, and collecting a paycheck twice a month.

Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009

Hey CNN; when you find a town-meeting that is peaceful, sophisticated, and filled with level minded people, report it will ya.

Obama approval dips to new low in Florida 2009

They have fought every human calamity in its most hideous form and yet today they hold some similar vestiges of a mighty past,—their work in iron, their weaving and carving, their music and singing, their tribal government, their town-meeting and marketplace, their desperate valor in war.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

•Having trashed the airwaves all summer with The Baby Borrowers (9 ET/PT), NBC now trashes its news division by using it to produce a Baby town-meeting special.

Critic's Corner Wednesday 2008

It struck me, however, that they had not worked very hard to find the hostiles; indeed, it could plainly be seen that their expedition was a town-meeting sort of affair, and that anxiety to get safe home was uppermost in their thoughts.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Like many old New England towns, Guilford has a town-meeting form of government that depends largely on volunteers.

Beauty and the Beach Riva Richmond 2009

Like many old New England towns, Guilford has a town-meeting form of government that depends largely on volunteers.

Beauty and the Beach 2009

For his part, McCain displayed some of the ease with the town-meeting format and the familiarity with foreign policy issues that had contributed to the high expectations for his performance.

David Kusnet: How Obama Taught the Nation (And McCain) a Lesson on Economics 2008

I have made three trips to Libya in the past two years, engaging directly with Colonel Qadhafi in open discussions, the last time on the BBC with the Western news media present, to talk about the Libyan effort to build a "town-meeting" type of direct democracy absent political parties.

Benjamin R. Barber: A World Beyond the Presidential Race 2008

Instead, Clinton and Dole will meet in two debates next month (Oct. 6 and 16; one will be a town-meeting format) with Al Gore and Jack Kemp facing off Oct. 9.

Stewing On The Sidelines 2008