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One of the achievements of RDFRS (US) was to get the original 'Four Horsemen of Atheism' (Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and me, together under one roof (Christopher's) for an unchaired and unscripted filmed conversation.

2016, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, page 7

Culture may affect preferred decision-making styles and expectations concerning group- and team work, the ease or difficulty of working in an unchaired or unsupervised group, the level of deference to an authority/leader, the level of preference for informality, whether the atmosphere is competitive or cooperative, and whether there is a preference for exploring all issues before a decision is sought or alternatively for a sense of urgency and pressure for closure.

2017, Maureen Guirdham, Oliver Guirdham, Communicating Across Cultures at Work, page 120

Among them were three friends of Hans Freyer: Helmut Berve, the chaired profesor of ancient history; André Jolles, an unchaired professor of Germanic language and culture; and Arnold Gehlen, a young philosopher.

1987, Jerry Z. Muller, The Other God that Failed, page 230

So he was, to be sure, an "unchaired extraordinary professor of physics”, with the status of professor, but with only a very, very small income as assistant.

2016, Eckart Menzler-Trott, Logic's Lost Genius, page 107

Ascend we; enter this cold naked room, Unchaired, untabled – dashed with filth and gloom;

1850, Alexander Macansh, The Social Curse; Or, Intemperance, a Rhyme, page 27

But the interior of the Sacré Cœur at Moulins, as I remarked above, is wonderfully minister-like and impressive, and the views across the nave—whose piers, by the way, are gathered up into very harmonious clusters—from the large unchaired space at its western extremity have considerable poetry.

1905, Thomas Francis Bumpus, Summer Holidays Among the Glories of Northern France, page 206

Sleepers are now largely renewed because the fastening wear loose through the perishing of the wood around them, and the fastenings are generally renewed at least once before the sleeper is condemned, particularly on unchaired lines.

1906 October, “The Lakhovsky Screw-Bolt for Fastening Chairs or Rails”, in The Railway Engineer, volume 27, page 329