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Example sentences for: sit-down

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The Chechen president, who denies any affiliation with the guerrillas, has requested a sit-down with Boris Yeltsin, but for now the Russians aren't having any of it.
In one chapter, "Journey on a Davenport," he tucks himself in on his mother's couch and goes on a sort of existential sit-down strike.
Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."
Bull Connor advised FDR on Southern matters until FDR's death, ran Birmingham for almost three decades after Eleanor's sit-down protest, and was even the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama during the Kennedy administration.)
(A sit-up , with a hyphen, exercises your abdominal muscles, but a sit-down strike tends to exercise the tempers of management.)