Sentence examples for figures convened from inspiring English sources

Condé, Yansané and other government figures convened investors at a hotel in London last month to promote the merits of doing business in the west African country.

As the Taliban leadership retreated into Afghanistan's rural areas and across the border to Pakistan, anti-Taliban figures convened at a United Nations (UN -sponsored conference in Bonn, Ger.

The insults levelled at Massey came just days after a meeting of senior European football figures, convened by Uefa and the Football Association, concluded that football is "institutionally sexist" – run, across the continent, by a self-perpetuating "old boys' club".

This is a jagged dissonance, a contradiction rarely addressed at conferences, summits, and other spaces where community figures convene.

Once I attended a rangefinding meeting in Princeton with various test-scoring managers and English professors from around the country, the group having convened to figure out how to score writing samples for a national test.

Working group three in Figure 2 has been convened as a Trial Management Group, Chaired by LL (co-applicant) that meets monthly by teleconference.

Dr. Mehdi Khazali, who reportedly participated in several recent opposition demonstrations, was reportedly summoned to a special court convened for religious figures, detained and transferred to an unknown location".

"I hope I leave office as a respected figure who can convene people and bring people together," he said.

At JPMorgan, the challenge of coping with the fallout from financial reform has figured prominently in weekly strategy sessions convened by Jamie Dimon, the bank's chief executive.

Bishop Cummings said the board had convened a committee to figure out how to go forward, but had not made any formal proposals.

On Nov. 11, the Gates Foundation convened a meeting of leading figures in American education to admit candidly that the new small high schools had not fulfilled their promise.