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- noun Plural form of
sit-down .
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Examples
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Lute liked to call their sit-downs “breakout sessions”—small, informal gettogethers after the large NSC meetings.
Obama’s Wars Bob Woodward 2010
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In the past few weeks, Sheen has been everywhere, coining catchphrases in TV sit-downs "winning," "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA", Tweeting about his philosophies and live-streaming his life online.
Mark C. Miller: Can Judaism Save Charlie Sheen? Mark C. Miller 2011
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But the sit-downs and the court-packing plan ultimately backfired.
Lessons for Obama From the First 'Occupy' Movement Paul Moreno 2011
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It's almost amazing anybody would turn down Woods '"first interview," as both ESPN and Golf Channel billed its sit-downs.
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Labor Secretary Perkins, who had earlier suggested the tactic might be legal, now concluded that sit-downs were "either unlawful, undesirable, or inappropriate."
Lessons for Obama From the First 'Occupy' Movement Paul Moreno 2011
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In the past few weeks, Sheen has been everywhere, coining catchphrases in TV sit-downs "winning," "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA", Tweeting about his philosophies and live-streaming his life online.
Mark C. Miller: Can Judaism Save Charlie Sheen? Mark C. Miller 2011
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Where else do you go from rookie journalist to sit-downs with the Prime Minister within the first year of your career?
MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark MP Nunan 2011
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Meanwhile the public began to see the common thread tying the sit-downs and the court-packing plan—a contempt for the rule of law.
Lessons for Obama From the First 'Occupy' Movement Paul Moreno 2011
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Where else do you go from rookie journalist to sit-downs with the Prime Minister within the first year of your career?
MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark MP Nunan 2011
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Defenders of the plant occupation often claimed that employer defiance of the Wagner Act's guarantee of collective bargaining provoked the workers, but the sit-downs had nothing to do with the new law.
Lessons for Obama From the First 'Occupy' Movement Paul Moreno 2011
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