and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

At the age of 20, students were voted into one of the public messes.

They enjoy watching the wealthy, savoring the thought of their fine homes, luxurious vacations, fancy cars, and gourmet dining.

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts

We feasted and reveled and rutted in muck, Forgetting our peril, forgetting to duck, Forgetting times arrows are sharper than knives.

And you cannot adopt a Churchill like call to sacrifice when you indulge in a series of highly publicized luxury weekends with your latest fiancée.

But, behind all the smiles and banquet toasts, serious issues and perception gaps continue to divide the world s two great powers.

A constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (and on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.

But seriously, we also have this phenomenon on Madison Avenue and in other places, where people are actually walking out of luxury boutiques with ordinary, sort of generic paper bags to hide the brand purchases.

This constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.

The wealthy elites who made their money through corruption or smuggling might not have had anywhere to spend it but Beirut and abroad in the old days, but today, they can spend their money on anything they fancy right at home in Syria.

Most countries suffer serious things like power shortages, water shortages, or food shortages, but here in Israel we re at the luxury end of the market and we suffer ice cream shortages, writes Nicky.

On these criteria, Deauville, in French Normandy, with the (slightly faded) elegance of a past era of elite luxury, ostentatious consumption, and sumptuous banquets, is also perhaps not an altogether fortunate choice for the G 8 meeting.

If we're going to deal with political conflict solving of conflicts, if we're going to understand these new groups which are coming from bottom up, supported by technology, which is available to all, we diplomats cannot be sitting back in the banquets believing that we are doing interstate relations.