Sentence examples for convened talks from inspiring English sources

Mr. Green convened talks last Sunday, a little more than 40 hours after they were ordered, at a resort hotel in Las Colinas, Tex.

By the time Kofi Annan, the first UN special envoy, convened talks in Geneva at the end of 2012, the Syrian war had already been raging for more than a year.

The Australian National University's leadership forum, held over Monday and Tuesday, convened talks on a range of topics, including the rise of mega-corporations, employment prospects in modern capitalism, and the likelihood of political reform in China.

The most striking feature of the current hastily convened talks here in Egypt is that the delegations are again on their own, with no American or other third-party mediators.

The National Mediation Board convened talks in hopes of negotiating a contract before attendants are allowed to walk off their jobs at the carrier on July 1, the height of the summer travel season.

MOSCOW — Hopes for a breakthrough on a conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia were deflated Friday when Russia, which convened talks in the city of Kazan, released a statement saying that the leaders of the two countries had not agreed to the framework for a deal.

Mr Straw and Harriet Harman, the leader of the House of Commons, are due to convene talks to discuss such measures, which Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg say they support.

The Golden Duck award was voted on by attendees of the many Skeptics in the Pub groups, which convene talks and events around rationalism.

The preliminary agreement is the Obama administration's first incremental success in efforts to convene talks since the president's attempt to broker a deal early in his first term ended in acrimony.

The exercise has prompted the White House to convene talks to discuss the Republicans' scattershot demands, which have ranged from trillions in spending cuts to the outright dismantling of vital safety-net programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Mr. Steinmeier was instrumental in convening talks in Vienna last month on the Syria conflict, drawing together Saudi Arabia; its main regional rival, Iran; as well as Russia, the United States and other Western powers and regional actors including Turkey and Iraq.