Sentence examples for first congress from inspiring English sources

In 1936, it hosted an archdiocesan-level Eucharistic Congress, the first congress ever to be celebrated in Western Canada.

Twelve deputies attended the Communist party's first congress in Shanghai in 1921.

On 6 June, participants to the first congress of the Mathematics Society of France (SMF) in Tours issued a statement supporting the panel's decision.

The Arab Ba'ath Party's first congress was held in Damascus in 1947.

In 1889, AFL president Samuel Gompers wrote to the first congress of the Second International, which was meeting in Paris.

Since that first congress in 1995, BANTAO congresses have been held every 1 2 years.

Jaan Tönisson founded a National Liberal Party and organized its first congress in Tallinn on November 27.

The Myanmar Journalists Association, which has 800 members, held its first congress on Aug. 11 and made a point of telling government officials that they were not welcome.

First, Congress hoped to reduce the uncertainty over who was disabled under the ADA, and second, Congress hoped to do so by greatly expanding the coverage of the ADA "to the maximum extent permitted" (42 U.S.C. § 12102(4)(A)).

During the Twenty-first Congress, he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

During the Thirty-first Congress, the Whig caucus considered him as a candidate for Speaker of the House.