Sentence examples for gathering devoted to from inspiring English sources

What was intended to be a gathering devoted to the work of Judith Malina turned into a celebratory shiva.

Starting on Sunday, Washington will host 20,000 scientists, public health officials, activists and journalists at the biannual conference of the International AIDS Society, the world's biggest gathering devoted to the disease.

They were there to dance the forró, a rustic country dance from northeastern Brazil that has fired the romantic imaginations of Parisians young and old, at a weekly gathering devoted to the dance.

The occasion was the Tiny House Jamboree, which had been advertised as the largest-ever gathering devoted to houses that contain no more than four hundred square feet of living space.

The building's transformation began in 2007 with a discussion among some grain farmers, bakers, oven builders and others attending Skowhegan's inaugural "Kneading Conference", an annual gathering devoted to preserving grain-related traditions, uses and local jobs.

I looked back the other day at the talk I gave then, expecting to it to sound like prehistory, and to my astonishment it was something I could have read today, particularly to a gathering devoted to Image and Imagination.

Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women and held in cities across the United States, the reunions were large, celebratory gatherings devoted to the history, culture and traditions of African-Americans.

In the early 1970s, however, such activities were marquee events at gatherings devoted to humanistic psychology, a school that Rollo May, a practitioner, lamented was "formed by scholars" and "taken over by hippies".

Much of the gathering was devoted to the finer points of yogurt production, like whey disposal and manure management: the president of the New York Power Authority was on hand to discuss new efforts to convert cow waste into energy.

Khaled Khoja, president of the Syrian National Coalition, urged Britain and other countries not to take part in open-ended talks after last Friday's meeting in Vienna, the largest gathering yet devoted to ending the four-and-half-year war, which has claimed over 250,000 lives and made 11 million people homeless.

Much of Obama's early address to the gathering was devoted to the Syrian crisis and laid the basis for his other calls to action, in opposition to the Iranian nuclear program and in support of Palestinian statehood through direct negotiations with Israel.