These writers have gathered to launch a magazine to be called "Mickey Finn".
An Indian teenager sat alongside Bill and Melinda Gates and called for an end to child trafficking as officials gathered to launch global targets aimed at improving the lives of women and children.
Yet as we gathered to launch our pilgrimage, we recognised that Bach's music is one of the touchstones of civilisation – to be treasured every time we hear or recreate it.
Euripides' play "Iphigenia in Aulis," written centuries after the war it presumably describes, focused on the events before the invasion itself, when, having gathered to launch their attack from Aulis, the Greek fleet found itself pinned down by a contrary wind, and the army threatened to break apart as rumor and rebellion spread through the ranks.
In 2013, a group of Syrian expats from around the world gathered to launch a non-profit organization called "Jusoor", Arabic for "bridges".
At the final meeting of the President's Faith Council, the Reverend Otis Moss Jr, one of the lions of the civil rights movement, remarked: "On this very day fifty years ago, a group of young people gathered to launch the student sit-in movement in Atlanta.
Yesterday the scientists gathered to officially launch the African Physical Society.
Coming together as strangers from all walks of life and locations, people share their stories at the service before the flight, then gather to observe the launch.
They also gathered together to launch a stage musical inspired by their songs called Viva Forever.
Unfortunately for the Cambodians living in the valley below, the cloudy sky did little to dampen the spirits of the hundreds of Thai gamblers who had gathered there to launch around a dozen 30-foot-long bamboo rockets in the space of a couple hours.
