thefactofholdingasummit, orsummitsgenerally:Somepeoplearguethat there is too much summitry and not enoughactionwhen it comes to theenvironment.(Definition ofsummitryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsummitry
summitryThe trouble withsummitryin any sphere is that expectations tend to rise beyond what can reasonably be hoped for.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We judge him not by worldsummitry, to which he gave a great deal of attention.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Will one child be saved from death by malnutrition as a result ofsummitry?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0She said that, generally speaking,summitrywas a waste of time and that nothing was achieved.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Several references have been made tosummitry.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Yet, at the level ofsummitry, we are unable to exploit that situation to win changes in the policies pursued by all the major industrial countries.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We are in the middle ofsummitry.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/summitry##
