| There was no introductory palaver, he went on stage and went straight into the music and song. |
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| Hence its 80 years of more or less continual crisis, in which the current palaver is a relatively minor squall. |
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| All that travelling abroad and wedding palaver were just desperate, elaborate stunts to get new stories! |
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| Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. |
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| Why not some panchayat, a round table under the overseer moon, or a palaver by the banyan tree? |
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| I'm just trying to say that food can be normal and not actually a huge great palaver. |
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| Tons of people enjoy lurid palaver on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, and your specific frame of reference is not a bit rare. |
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| After a long night in our desolate camp, Jon and I have a palaver with Karchung. |
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| It was quiet all around the pot-bellied stove when Jesse, the elder, finished his palaver. |
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| All this pointless palaver about safety nets ignores the fact that Medicare IS a safety net. |
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| We found a bar and had a couple of drinks and, after some palaver, managed to order some food, and we chatted about all sorts of stuff. |
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| As someone happiest in a pair of Stubbies from the local menswear store, we don't understand the fashion palaver. |
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| Now the interesting part of this whole palaver comes when you have a couple of people both using the system. |
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| The administration may be doing the press a small favor by snubbing it, freeing reporters to abandon their scripted palaver and dig elsewhere for stories. |
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| I don't know why I should feel the need to go through all this palaver. |
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| Since I've started the whole palaver, I may as well carry it forward. |
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| Some parts of the world remain satisfyingly oblivious to all this palaver, however, as this true tale from a Scottish hostelry so splendidly proves. |
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| There's some big issues to consider with all this marriage palaver. |
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| At first it seems like an awful lot of palaver, but actually the crepe maker is rather a good idea because you can't get them thin enough in an ordinary frying pan. |
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| There was plenty of other sorts of entries before this recent palaver. |
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| He seemed at first much pleased of the situation, but after examining the captives closely he called a palaver. |
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| Financial considerations apart, was he worth all that palaver? |
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| They talked and talked-you know, the tradition of palaver, you go under the tree and you talk. |
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| Stool palaver Fang, an ancient manufacture, the base is covered with engraved bronze. |
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| One of these very green trees, probably the one in the middle, is a palaver tree. People in the village gather in its shade. |
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| Disputes are often settled under the palaver tree and sometimes in court, but they can also degenerate into explosions of violence. |
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| Visit more beautiful dogon villages, well-known for the beauty of their attics and their famous palaver huts. |
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| Even before the expenses palaver, fewer people were voting, and more of those who did were voting for smaller parties. |
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| So you've been through the palaver of job hunting, you've nailed a great role and you've successfully handed in your letter of resignation. |
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| From the rainforests of Tasmania to the dunes of the Sahara, they swapped the pains and palaver of the 21st century for the pleasures of a purer planet. |
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| The author of this nauseating palaver is obviously so in love with what he thinks is his own eloquent rhetoric that he fails to notice his laughable double entendre. |
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| William. No palaver! tell it to the marines. What, tacking and double tacking! Come to what you want to say at once. |
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| In a church that embraced monarchical episcopacy, setting aside the synagogue council of elders, African social organisational model with mass consultation and deliberation, is dominated by palaver. |
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| As one cynical member of the audience grumbled, it seemed to be a big palaver for the launch of a few marketing tools. What has actually changed in India as Mr Modi pushes manufacturing? |
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| The palaver over the power of pill pushers has continued ever since. |
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| However, if reaching agreement in Brussels means replaying the palaver of the last night in Nice, the Intergovernmental Conference must not end in Brussels. |
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| Malian society values peace and reconciliation, achieved though the use of mediators and democratic discussion beneath the palaver tree, or through the intervention of elders as the leaders of traditional civil society. |
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| This time under the palaver tree was to belong to the others alone. |
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| Malian tradition is one of peace and reconciliation, achieved though democratic discussion beneath the palaver tree and the use of mediators, or through the intervention of Elders as the leaders of traditional civil society. |
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| A key socio-political institution of precolonial Africa, the palaver is an assembly where a variety of issues are freely debated and important decisions concerning the community are taken. |
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| Here we remained four days, on account of a palaver which was held on the following occasion. |
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| Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them. |
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| After considerable palaver, the provisional government co-opted four of the radical leaders, including the socialist theoretician Blanc and a workingman who called himself Albert. |
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| With North Korea, the palaver is mostly about hoping and waiting. |
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| We dined on squab, which I suspected of having started out in life as nonlaughing sea gull, listened to the current palaver in the bar and said good night. |
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| We're coming down to the final curtain of this whole palaver. |
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| Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair. |
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