The rebels' negotiating position was strengthened by the conviction that, if convened, a meeting of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs would probably back their demands.
More importantly, if convened quickly, it would help lay the political groundwork for rapid action on a short-term stimulus package, which Obama said will be his first priority upon taking office.
* If convened in New York City, convention events (and dollars) would be spread through all five boroughs, with the hub at Barclays.
"We asked ourselves what would happen if we convened advanced users of self-tracking technologies to see what we could learn from each other".
What if Facebook convened a cabinet of unfriendly social economists, media scholars, data historians, whatever — people who think systemically in other frames — and let them kick tires and raise a fuss?
She has held off until now to see if talks convened by the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, can broker a compromise, but so far no deal has emerged and one anti-Corbyn MP said colleagues were losing patience with McCluskey's efforts.
At the first TSC meeting the need for a Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee, interim analyses and stop rules for the trial will be discussed and a Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee will be convened if necessary.
If convening authorities are indeed sending cases unsupported by the evidence and contrary to their legal advice to trial, that fact alone should result in immediate reform.
Instead, he said he would, if elected, convene a housing summit right away, "and have around it all the best, smartest, for-profit and not-for-profit builders, labor and management people, contracting people, churches that put up housing, poverty advocates to figure out where the revenue will come from and what the right mix of low- and middle-income housing is".
If Thompson decides to charge the police officer in the death of Akai Gurley, or if he convenes a grand jury that indicts the police officer, then the case goes to trial.
If you convene such a meeting, you need to be prepared for tough questions, which may include, "Are we legally required to do this?' or "Are the other banks also taking a comparable haircut?" If you value your career, you'd better have some good answers to show that you are acting on behalf of the bank.
