"It will make the town-hall meetings look amateurish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Question Remains] Reference

Rep. Mike Castle during a town-hall meeting last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea Party Favorite Unsettles Delaware GOP] Reference

McCain's once sunny town-hall script has turned darker.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Prize to the Noble Loser] Reference

There is also an ancient market-house, used as a town-hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

We select the site of the Hotel de Ville or the town-hall of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

They are not abstractions to be debated at town-hall meetings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters: August 24 & 31, 2009] Reference

"You know I used to have lots and lots of town-hall meetings," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Gore’S Best Hope] Reference

Which is unusual, given McCain's professed love of the town-hall setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incoming] Reference

A noteworthy building in the town is the octagonal town-hall, dating from 1747.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

I spend most of my days with town-hall meetings and with people — people like you.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The American People Know Me’] Reference

"He called me back Wednesday," the day of the Times's town-hall meeting, Faraone said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times Bomb] Reference

Wary of the capital, she attended policy seminars and town-hall meetings around the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Hillary's D.C. Game] Reference

Meanwhile the contenders were prepping for their last debate, a town-hall affair in St. Louis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Close For Comfort] Reference

The telephone town-hall events "played a significant role" in Mr. Bennet's win, says Mr. Ingham.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Campaigns, Entrepreneurs Get Busy] Reference

Tension grew as McCain prepared for the second debate, the town-hall format in Nashville on Oct. 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Debates] Reference

Citizens meet across racial lines, not to shout at each other, but to deliberate in the finest town-hall tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Works] Reference

In Cedar Rapids, before an impressively large crowd of more than 2,000, Obama took questions in a town-hall setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Trail Highs. And Lows.] Reference

On Monday, Obama himself was in Fairfax for a backyard town-hall meeting on the economy, with Connolly in attendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNC chair Steele to appear with Hill hopefuls Fimian, Smith] Reference

At town-hall meetings, he looks pensive as he carefully answers voters 'questions, like the law lecturer he used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Details, Details] Reference

He also fields questions from the crowd at "conferences," as Iraqis call their version of U. S.-style town-hall meetings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumping For Sunnis] Reference

The king on his return did not visit the town-hall, but hurried on board, and the last chance of reconciliation was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

But you know, at a town-hall meeting I've never had a person stand up and say, "Hey, Senator McCain, you've made a gaffe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The American People Know Me’] Reference

"The short answer is, I don't know," says Roemer, who has spent hours quizzing Catholics at rallies and town-hall meetings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s New Gospel] Reference

That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smear or Be Smeared] Reference

Chris Christie discusses changes to state pension and health benefits at a town-hall meeting Tuesday in Gloucester Township.    From Wordnik.com.  [Case Tests Retirees' Pension Cuts] Reference

And then there was that sign greeting President Obama outside an August town-hall meeting in New Hampshire: Obama lies, grandma dies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack!] Reference

It was the McCain camp, after all, that had proposed a town-hall forum every week during early discussions about the debate schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incoming] Reference

I congratulated him, as you might expect, and said I looked forward to the town-hall meetings and hoped we could get started right away.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’] Reference

It claims to have participated in 649 town-hall and other meetings and to have reached more than 50 million people through ads this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-Care Nation] Reference

After the town-hall debate, Salter and Schmidt reunited with a dozen or so members of the traveling press corps at a karaoke bar in Nashville.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Debates] Reference

For the second debate, a town-hall format, Obama was told to be careful to hold the mike by his side — not straight up in his lap — when he sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Debates] Reference

At a network-wide town-hall meeting last week, most of their questions for Hoff-man and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker were about Murdoch's upstart network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forward Into Battle] Reference

We have the ability to reach out online and have virtual town-hall meetings, whether it is over a tele – town hall on the phone or whether you are doing it on the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Cantor: It’s All About Jobs] Reference