But the discussions and real-world changes these online gatherings initiate move easily to government chambers, mainstream media outlets in television, radio and press, or onto the streets.
That first gathering initiates a yearlong process in which each leader is challenged to do deep, honest introspective work with himself (or herself), taking to heart Socrates' 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-olded life is not worth living".
Perhaps their gesture merely expressed gratitude that the president had picked up the tab – out of his own pocket – for the gathering he initiated at the tony Jefferson Hotel, just blocks from the White House and across Lafayette Park.
These fears culminated in Operation RYAN, the code name for a secret intelligence gathering program initiated by Andropov to detect a potential nuclear sneak attack which he believed Reagan was plotting.
Then data gathering was initiated in the second center.
The books are the culmination of a data-gathering project initiated in 2003 as part of research that led to The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East.
Additional bias is potentially introduced by including baseline data of patients entering the study diagnosed with CFRD prior to prospective data gathering that was initiated in 1992, at which point all patient data was prospectively reviewed in this cohort study.
Some two years ago, a global data-gathering process was initiated in consultation with regional and national analysis, as well as field visits.
Mr. Dienstbier, who with Mr. Shevardnadze initiated the gathering, used the occasion to press Czechoslovakia's plan for a new pan-European security system.
After the Cardinals beat the Dodgers in the first round of the playoffs, Walker initiated a gathering in which both teams convened on the field and shook hands, like hockey teams after a round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
An ideal response of the archbishop would be to focus on relationships: to meet with the primates' council of Gafcon on neutral territory: not at the Lambeth conference, which is already a compromised gathering since those who initiated this crisis, the consecrators of Gene Robinson, will be present, and since the issues are fundamental questions about the authority of scripture in the church.
