Sentence examples for conducted a marathon from inspiring English sources

With their company's stocks and bonds sinking again, executives at the Calpine Corporation conducted a marathon conference call with investors yesterday, hoping to reassure them about the company's financial strength and future profits.

The French film critic Jean Narboni, who, with the writer-critic Noël Simsolo, conducted a marathon series of interviews with Fuller in 1985, sensed that Fuller "would as gladly speak to a dog, a bird, a comet," even "to a wall," as to him.

In the best of all possible worlds, I would have 20 or so free hours in the coming weeks to conduct a marathon viewing of the original Danish version of "The Killing," whose American adaptation's first season concluded controversially on AMC last month.

Holed up in his apartment in Trump Tower overlooking Central Park, he conducted a 24-hour marathon of negotiations to seal the deal — in the process consulting James.

John Eliot Gardiner is conducting a "Bach marathon" at the Royal Albert Hall, London SW7, on Monday.

He recently conducted a study that recruited sedentary men and women and trained them to run a marathon.

Then, conduct a free-writing marathon.

In August 1563 she declared the King of age in the Parlement of Rouen and, from April 1564 to January 1566, conducted him on a marathon itinerary round France.

But on Wednesday night, before a capacity crowd at Summerstage -- so large that the police ordered the gates closed, disappointing several hundred latecomers -- Mr. La Selva, 71, completed his marathon by conducting a production of Verdi's final opera, "Falstaff".

With Zubin Mehta conducting, Mr. Stern played a marathon program that included performances of double and triple concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart with Mr. Perlman and Mr. Zukerman, as well as the Brahms Violin Concerto.

The poll was conducted after marathon committee hearings took place, in which the Conservative majority shot down hundreds of amendments to the bill.