But delegates seeking a break from work can now rest in something else: Oman has donated a new lounge to the United Nations.
At the Latvian Communist Party Congress here in Riga, nearly one-third of the 792 delegates, seeking independence for Latvia and its party, walked out when the conservative majority tried to defer the meeting until mid-year.
The stakes for his acceptance speech grew exponentially greater after three days of serial mishaps: a last-gasp floor fight by delegates seeking to thwart the business mogul's nomination; revelations that his wife plagiarized passages in her testimonial address; and, most dramatically, Sen. Ted Cruz's snub of Trump during his prime-time speaking slot Wednesday.
Delegates sought to have their photograph taken with her, or at least get an autograph.
The polished delegates sought out the press to describe their group as transformed, agreeable to power-sharing and willing even to ban notorious figures like Pol Pot and Ta Mok from any political involvement.
Summit delegates sought to turn the tide on the dominant neoliberal economic agenda which focuses too tightly on economic growth and the market, essentially removing social issues from mainstream policy discourse.
In a clear signal that the Suharto years are over, the assembly began with a clamor of shouts as a dozen or so of the 700 delegates sought to make procedural points with cries of "Interruption!
Revelations from other Olympic bids have implicated about a third of the I.O.C.'s 114 delegates in some form of inappropriate activity and clearly established that many people were aware of which delegates sought special favors in return for their votes.
But Democrats reserved their strongest criticism to respond to the RNC's attempt to shut down a mini-rebellion earlier in the day, when anti-Trump delegates sought to force a vote on rules that could have given them one last chance to block his expected nomination on Tuesday.
She writes that the delegates sought not only to honor Darwin as a revolutionary scientist and cultural hero but also to use the occasion to examine the underpinnings of the evolution theory in the wake of a series of new developments.
