Imagine a gathering of delegates from the many ages of a single nation.
Without explanation, North Korea appears to have postponed a major gathering of delegates of the ruling Workers Partyy, the first such meeting in decades, that it had said it would convene in early September.
But Faizi also said that a loya jirga – a traditional gathering of delegates from around the country, which Karzai has promised will be convened to approve any deal – may happen this autumn.
At the urging of President William Howard Taft, the Chamber of Commerce of the USA was established by a gathering of 700 delegates from 44 states, representing 324 voluntary organisations, in a Washington hotel.
The sole official task at hand for this gathering of 352 delegates, joined in the bleachers by an audience of thousands, Democratic office-holders, advocates and lobbyists, was to nominate Mrs. Clinton.
The famous Lahore Resolution, later known as the Pakistan Resolution, was passed by the largest gathering of league delegates just one day after Jinnah informed his followers that "the problem of India is not of an inter-communal but manifestly of an international character".
In 1977, she was one of 45 International Women's Year commissioners who convened the National Women's Conference in Houston, a federally financed gathering of 2000 delegates from the 50 states, for the purpose of helping to form national policy on women's issues.
"I have often quoted a Chinese proverb which says that when you are in a common boat, you have to cross the river peacefully together," Secretary of State Clinton told the gathering of climate delegates in Copenhagen three years ago -- words that advocates reminded her of in this week's letter.
* The 18th Party Congress (a gathering of 2,200 delegates from across China to discuss the Party's policies in Beijing) is normally held in the month of October, with its exact date announced in the month of September, but this was not done; hence the anxiety.
The Assembly of Delegates was dissolved.
Cardinal Dolan, an opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage who is among the Catholic bishops suing the Obama administration over its contraception health care mandate, will bless a gathering of thousands of delegates who passionately disagree with him.
