Mr. Rushdie's appearance at the conference caused several scheduled speakers, including prominent politicians, to pull out.
His deep bow at a news conference caused some discomfort among American managers, who believed it appeared too contrite.
Sir Tim Hunt, the Nobel laureate whose comments about women at an international conference caused a furore earlier this year, is leaving Britain for a life in Japan.
(a) The Grammy Awards official whose refusal to let Giuliani read a list of nominees at a press conference caused such tension that the organization decided to move its next ceremony to Los Angeles, costing New York forty million dollars in revenue.
The announcement of his defection on the eve of the Tory conference caused genuine shock - there had been no inkling of it earlier in the Westminster village.
His press conference caused a firestorm of controversy and drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans".
Trump's fiery press conference caused consternation for Republican leaders and administration officials.
The results of the investigation, announced in a three-hour press conference, caused incredulity in a country already consumed with cynicism, corruption cases, impunity, and public officials flouting the law.
I mean, we were -- we put everything we had into getting the votes to get there today, but the Speaker had to give a partisan voice that poisoned our conference, caused a number of members who we thought we could get to go south". Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor followed Boehner, and brandished his own copy of Pelosi's speech when seconding his leader's analysis.
In recent years an unprecedented skills gap has opened up between the conferences, causing unusually high parity within them: most teams in the west are very good, and have to duke it out with other strong teams to make the postseason, whereas most teams in the east are pretty bad, and get to spar with similarly weak rivals to secure an undeserved playoff spot.
The title of her talk at the conference was Causes and Issues: Fighting for What Is Right.
