Summits

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

Low temperatures kept summits frozen most of the spring.

On the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow.

At last she saw dry land before her, high blue mountains on whose summits the white snow glistened as if a flock of swans had settled there.

Traditionally, G-20 summits are staid affairs and despite the fact consensus on trade, development and climate issues regularly eludes the gatherings, at least efforts are made to conjure up formal bonhomie.

President Barack Obama says leaders of the G20 nations are headed for what he calls a broad-based agreement aimed at balanced and sustainable growth that will build upon agreements from earlier summits.