This plan, of course is only at the talking stage.

These and other plans never went beyond the talking stages.

"We're really in a thinking and talking stage right now to see what might be viable."

Those plans are still in the "talking stage," a person involved with the negotiations said.

But some analysts and industry executives doubt the plan will get past the talking stage.

But plans for more transmission lines remain largely in the talking stage.

For now, the proposal remains in the talking stage.

I think we're past the talking stage now, sir.

The mall project is still in the talking stages.

The deal never got past the talking stage.

But like so many of Sexton's schemes, the plan never got farther than the talking stage.

My fear, expressed earlier, that we will not move beyond the talking stage is, unfortunately, well-founded.

"I think that's something we're in the talking stages with," Torre said.

Now, it has gone beyond the talking stages.

"We are very much at the talking stage."

The men initially talked about starting a home contracting business together, but the idea never got past the talking stage, Goldmsith said.

We're still mostly at the talking stage, now that we've reinforced all the shields and-well, never mind.

But that is merely in the talking stages.

The exchange of notes, however, never led to the talking stage, and each side is now busily blaming the other for the breakdown.

But defenders of Cheney suggested that no laws were broken because the counterterrorism program never got beyond the talking stage.

All things still in the talking stage.

Prof Morris said: "The plan is still in the thinking and talking stage.

"But it's very early in the talking stages."

But the idea of an med raid into Beirut never got past the talking stage, and it was robably just as well.