Sentence examples for foreign attendance from inspiring English sources

Overall, the feeling at the fair this year -- which flooded Milan with 189,655 visitors from the trade, up 10.6percentt from last year, with foreign attendance up 15percentt -- was one of real if tentative hopefulness.

Hermitage Tries a Western Idea to Cash In on Exhibition : Art: Expecting high foreign attendance at 'Treasures,' museum plans sales reminiscent of special patron benefits.

Hoping to capitalize on expectations of high foreign attendance to its newly opened, widely publicized exhibition of 74 French paintings stolen from Germany at the end of World War II, St . Petersburgs cash-strapped State Hermitage Museum has initiated a small-scale fund-raising gimmick unusual for the venerable institution.

In response, some universities across the UK have introduced more stringent monitoring of foreign student attendance.

Even when a group does go ahead with a meeting in a foreign destination, attendance can be down by 30 to 40 percent, Mr. Weaber said.

They dodge and weave when pressed about the damage that will be done, for example, to international funding and foreign student attendance at universities and to British participation in the Galileo satellite project.

Because of a misinterpretation of an indistinct section of a tape-recorded interview, the story quoted Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor, as saying that it was "as diligent as any [institution] in the country" when it came to reporting enrolment data, checking foreign student attendance and meeting Home Office requirements on English language for higher learning.

The Russian foreign minister's attendance did not stop two of his countrymen being prosecuted in Moscow for holding Je Suis Charlie placards.

He was then declared the winner after the withdrawal of his main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah.Mr Karzai is due to be sworn in on November 19th, with several Western foreign ministers in attendance.

The insurgents opened their Doha office with a lavish ceremony that included a ribbon cutting and the playing of the Taliban anthem, with the Qatari deputy foreign minister in attendance.

It is, by any measure, a high-class confab, with this year Sir V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux among a host of foreign writers in attendance, and Amartya Sen, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Subramaniam among a greater number of Indian ones.