Sentence examples for gathering rather from inspiring English sources
"But I prefer to think of it as a social gathering rather than a business".
Over the last few decades, researchers have scrutinized the effects of projecting confidence versus modesty, gathering rather contradictory conclusions.
Dinner parties have a way of eliminating the transaction, and making a meal a gathering rather than an appointment.
He needs something good to happen if England are to head into 2011 relishing the prospect of another global gathering rather than dreading it.
If it could be kept secret until the end, it could provide excitement and momentum coming out of the gathering rather than going into it.
The act of meeting a romantic partner at a flesh-and-blood gathering rather than online is disparaged by some dating coaches as "dating in the wild".
But instead of catching up to terrorists with ever-more expensive gadgets and ever-most annoying restrictions, the agency could try imitating the Israelis, who focus on intelligence-gathering rather than shampoo confiscation.
Over the years we've become quite clever, but none of what we're doing involves hacking and obviously we do not have special powers granted to us by the authorities," said Neumann, who advocates a more targeted approach to intelligence-gathering rather than reliance on mass surveillance techniques.
The Line of Beauty is a novel of eventful gatherings rather than propulsive action, and in these situations Hollinghurst proves to be one of the sharpest observers of privileged social groupings since Anthony Powell.
But like the Kuwait summit meeting, held during the Israeli invasion of Gaza, this gathering was overshadowed by a crisis that also seemed to underscore the impotence of such gatherings, rather than the collective strength of the region, political analysts said.
The sermon in Miracle 20 identifies this manuscript with the one at Durham, and says that both saints had worn it round their necks, ignoring that it has twelve gatherings rather than seven.
