"What we're doing is sort of like putting a wing on the Taj Mahal". The university's board of visitors — what most schools would call their trustees, but for this, as for many other things, Virginia has its own quaint nomenclature — was gathered around an immense oval conference table, beneath an 1816 portrait of Jefferson in his study at Monticello.
Ian Seiderman, director of the International Commission of Jurists, told the conference that "immense damage was being done to the fabric of international law".
Bruno and Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the Assembly, wield immense power over their conferences; they effectively decide if and when a bill comes to the floor and then tell everyone how to vote.
Final negotiations begin in earnest after the ceremonial opening on Wednesday by President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil and Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of the United Nations at the immense, shabby concrete-and-steel conference center almost an hour's drive from the center of town.
The only cheering thing to emerge from the conference was Mr. Marshall's immense personal success with the British public.
Over 6ft tall, he quietly dominated seminars and conferences, speaking softly, with immense deliberation, scholarly authority and personal integrity.
"Victor was immense," said Moyes, who, addressing a dimly lit media conference, acknowleded Hull had "several" chances.
Having to think about this future causes me immense physical distress," Julia Lamb told reporters at a press conference earlier this summer.
Outwitted by his French and British allies at the postwar peace conference in Paris, Wilson ended up surrendering his immense moral prestige among colonized peoples to European imperialists.
The conference will feature new findings at the intersection of immense datasets and human health.
