Sentence examples for host the gathering from inspiring English sources

The actor Justin Long, a childhood friend of Blake's, helped host the gathering.

Canada initially agreed to host the gathering of the Group of 8 leaders in Huntsville, Ontario, a summer resort town.

From a security point of view, David Cameron's choice of resort to host the gathering could scarcely have been bettered.

Thomas Saggaras, a ski instructor working part time as a bus-driver in the absence of pupils during the forum, said people had become tired of the security checks and restrictions and would vote soon on whether to host the gathering in future.

He recruited Harold Smith, the president of the Christianity Today ministry, which publishes the evangelical magazine of the same name founded by Graham, in 1956; Claude Alexander, a respected pastor in North Carolina; and Philip Ryken, the president of Wheaton College, in Illinois, to help host the gathering.

L'AQUILA, Italy — Dress rehearsals are well under way for the Group of 8 summit meeting that opens here on Wednesday, but whether the production is comedy, tragedy or the serious undertaking Italy hopes for may depend on the host: The gathering is set in an earthquake zone still beset by tremors and is being organized by a prime minister fending off a soap operatic sex scandal.

In tribal fashion, Mr. Nadiri hosted the gathering, feeding several thousand of his people for two days as they gathered to see Mr. Karzai.

Hosting the gathering was a little-known but well-connected organization, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation.

Serbia, which hosted the gathering, is not a member, but never mind that.

Khalid Abdullah Salih al-Qaraghuli, a brother of the sheik who hosted the gathering, was lying in a hospital bed awaiting care.

"We are fully aware of the responsibility that weighs on our shoulders," said President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who hosted the gathering at the sumptuous Élysée Palace here.