Sentence examples for affair at which from inspiring English sources

The Isfahan meeting was expected to be a routine affair, at which the cartel merely rolled over its production quotas.

Her activism began after the 1972 Inner Circle dinner in Manhattan, an annual black-tie affair at which journalists and political leaders mingle.

That was a splendid affair, at which I had been invited to speak, along with the historian David McCullough, among others.

Mr. Jones said he had not been given a time to speak at the meeting, traditionally a staid affair at which Coke executives review the past year and make upbeat predictions about the next one.

Before 1939 it had been largely a domestic affair at which German publishers displayed their new works to booksellers, with only a small number of foreign publishers participating and those almost entirely continental; but it steadily grew to be the greatest meeting place for publishers from throughout the world.

Manziel took a seat at 8 16 a.m. on Wednesday, the start of a three-hour grilling by the news media at SEC Media Days, the Southeastern Conference's annual three-day affair at which coaches and players talk about the coming season.

Award shows are stage-managed, prettified, self-justifying, emotionally incoherent affairs at which, occasionally, something meaningful or surprising happens.

Some of them were old-fashioned working-class affairs at which a portion of the nightly take was dutifully set aside for the benefit of veterans or local Little Leaguers.

Public concerts didn't become widespread until after 1800, and well into the nineteenth century they took the form of "miscellanies" — eclectic affairs at which all kinds of music were played before audiences that seldom sat still or quieted down.

Earlier twentieth-century, multiday North American festivals, like Tanglewood, Newport Jazz, Newport Folk, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, were (and remain) mostly civilized affairs, at which Dylan's plugging in his electric guitar, in 1965 at Newport Folk, counted as a major disturbance.

The indications so far are that hundreds and possibly thousands of people have been wrongly identified, on the basis of flawed evidence – judging by the "hundreds of people" that Deborah Finch, the head of legal affairs at Which?, says she is aware of.