Sentence examples for first convening of from inspiring English sources

Last month, the US Global Development Lab hosted its first convening of Cornerstone Partners a knowledge sharing and thought leadership network of 32 corporations, universities, civil society organisations and bilateral donors to talk about how we can work together to address some of the world's most pressing challenges.

The scheduled meeting would be the first convening of the now 15 month-old Somali parliament inside the country.

I was subsequently invited to become a member of the international organizing committee of the second convening of this congress in March 2003.

Michael Hirsh, then writing for Newsweek best captured the revolutionary feel of last year's conference -- and now a second convening of the world's leading economic thinkers are assembling in Bretton Woods, NH -- where in 1944 Keynes and other global economic and political leaders from 45 nations met to establish the International Monetary Fund.

First convened a couple of years ago, it's a gathering of sharp young improvisers who separately share some history with Mr. Fujiwara: the tenor saxophonist Brian Settles, the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, the guitarist Mary Halvorson and the bassist Danton Boller.

Wurman first convened the Church of Beethoven, a nondenominational Sunday morning meeting where music is the message, in 2008.

Those attributes were a kind of currency when the Jazz Passengers first convened in 1987, born of a downtown moment that had already yielded the Lounge Lizards.

The movement's roots lie in an annual rally of progressive groups outside the statehouse, a "people's assembly" that the North Carolina N.A.A.C.P. first convened in the winter of 2006.

The IDSMC will first convene prior to the start of recruitment and will then define frequency of subsequent meetings (at least annually).

This week marks the fourth and final convening of Forward Cities.

Fifth, convene a G-3 of the Big Three.