Sentence examples for hosted world from inspiring English sources

The country was a popular destination for visitors until the 1979 Islamic revolution, and hosted world luminaries such as Andy Warhol, violinist Yehudi Menuhin and choreographer Maurice Béjart.

He attended high school in Oppdal, Norway, a ski resort that hosted World Cup slalom skiing events, which enabled him to tend to his studies and work on his technique on the slopes at the same time.

Twenty years ago this August Denver hosted World Youth Day, the first time the world event took place in the U.S. As WYD director of communications, I was on a core team from Washington with Father Dennis Schnurr, WYD executive director and now archbishop of Cincinnati, and Paul Henderson, WYD director of programming and now director of planning and communication operations at the USCCB.

He did his best not to look smug when he hosted world leaders at a recent G8 summit in Deauville.

Earlier on Friday, Mr. Hu hosted world leaders at a luncheon inside the Great Hall of the People.

We're second in the league, we're playing the biggest teams in Europe, the stadium is expanding all the time, we've hosted World Cup matches here.

The Guardian has experienced this kind of organised assault on reports from Ukraine and, presumably because of implications for the Russian-hosted world cup in 2018, on corruption at Fifa.

Maybe Zimbabwe should become to the South Africa-hosted World Cup what Tibet has been to the Beijing Olympics — the pungent albatross that spoils every press conference and mars every presentation with its insistent odor.

THE SPORTING SCENE about teen soccer phenom Freddy Adu… Writer discusses attempts over the years to make soccer a popular professional sport in the United States, mentioning Pele's stint with the New York Cosmos and the U.S.-hosted World Cup in 1994.

By Ben McGrath The New Yorker, May 23 , 2005P. 48 THE SPORTING SCENE about teen soccer phenom Freddy Adu… Writer discusses attempts over the years to make soccer a popular professional sport in the United States, mentioning Pele's stint with the New York Cosmos and the U.S.-hosted World Cup in 1994.

The U.S.-hosted World Cup in 1994 was interesting, even fun.