The city is also relying on a recent law that gives its manager the power to declare a large-scale gathering an "extraordinary event".
In the same vein, the large-scale gathering in the Luneta Park came amid a booming economy, under the gentle watch of a highly popular leader.
It represented the first large-scale gathering of African Americans in this country since the 1963 March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
What better place to proselytize and convert lost souls than a large-scale gathering of kindred spirits who also obsess over sensational fantasy stories about the conflict between good and evil, with a healthy dollop of questionable gender politics?
With the impressive body of scholarship that has emerged to date on Afrofuturism, the time is right for a large-scale gathering of visionaries who want to explore how Afrofuturism interconnects with grassroots social movements and how those bonds can be strengthened.
Atmospheric CO2 concentration during the critical sequence from large-scale gathering of wild cereals at Ohalo II around 23.000 BP increased from roughly 200 μmol mol−1 to 270 μmol mol−1 [ 105] until the end of the Younger Dryas when evidence of cultivating wild cereals started to become more frequent and remained relatively stable until approximately 1800 AD.
Are large-scale gatherings like Rio worth the time, the cost and the carbon footprint?
It frowns on most large-scale gatherings, including those advocating gay rights; police cancelled the inaugural Mr. Gay China pageant in 2010.
Large-scale gatherings of this kind often involve an initial period of what one delegate has called "grandstanding"—when every country gets the chance to state its position, and there is little evidence, in public at least, of readiness to move.
Nevertheless, large scale data gathering and annotation is time consuming, which sets practical limitations to research.
Our formative work with large scale opinion gathering in the target group found that there was a wide range of activities, locations, coparticipants and times that adolescents wanted to do more physical activity.
