11.   New York native Mathieu Schneider entertained some of the police officers at the site by talking shop, analyzing NHL players and sharing various trade rumors.

12.   Sometimes derided as an outmoded talking shop, the Commonwealth has been at pains to carve itself a new role for the post-colonial era.

13.   The coffee organization provides a talking shop for producers and consumers and is the major clearing house for statistical information on the market.

14.   The Commonwealth has been largely ineffective since its creation following the Soviet breakup, serving mostly as a talking shop.

15.   The International Sugar Organization is the main talking shop for exporting and importing countries and the principal clearing house for statistics on global production, consumption and trade.

16.   The Rome conference is already being written off as a talking shop.

17.   Every democracy is a talking shop.

18.   It may be dismissed as a talking shop.