Sentence examples for competing conference from inspiring English sources

Microsoft canceled the only hearing scheduled in the case, scheduled for early June, after complaining that many European antitrust officials who could attend the hearing as observers were unable to do so because of a competing conference in Switzerland.

When the climate negotiations came to Warsaw in 2013, the World Coal Association organised a competing conference with the support of the Polish economics ministry, which was disrupted by climate activists waving an eight-metre inflatable pink lung.

He was actually attending a competing conference, Reboot, in Copenhagen.

This sounds like the best idea, especially since in my opinion you've already started a competing conference that is clearly (again in my mind) leveraging the IP and goodwill we've built over the past three years.

He said that he felt going to 12 teams was an important move for the Pac-12 in order to have a championship game and to be similar in size to competing conferences.

KEEPING THEIR COOL The Knicks are full of veterans accustomed to competing for conference titles.

We should be competing for conference championships with the players we have".

Senators Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana, both Republicans, held a competing news conference during which they denounced the bill.

That was a dig at a competing investment conference, known as "The Big Picture," that had been sponsored by Variety and the Schroders investment bank and is now sponsored by Salomon Smith Barney and Broadcasting and Cable magazine.

DAMASCUS, Syria — As Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, opened the annual Arab summit meeting here on Saturday morning, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister convened a competing news conference in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, with new criticism of Syrian policy, underscoring the bitter political feud that nearly upended this year's Arab gathering.

Second, some of the press out there is starting to go a little crazy with the drama between TechCrunch50 and the competing DEMO conference.