Sentence examples for marathon conference from inspiring English sources

Still waiting at the gym, Holden kills time watching the game and gossiping with some junior therapists until Hash finally escapes from a marathon conference call.

Instead, film producers love having marathon conference calls where they talk endlessly about getting Meryl Streep on board, leaving Darling wondering whether the call will ever end.

Inside his headquarters in Boston, advisers to Mr. Romney were engaged throughout the weekend in marathon conference calls about how and where to schedule his time in the midst of the storm.

With their company's stocks and bonds sinking again, executives at the Calpine Corporation conducted a marathon conference call with investors yesterday, hoping to reassure them about the company's financial strength and future profits.

Even many Amazonians who have worked on Wall Street and at start-ups say the workloads at the new South Lake Union campus can be extreme: marathon conference calls on Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving, criticism from bosses for spotty Internet access on vacation, and hours spent working at home most nights or weekends.

Mr. Liddell, who calls himself Microsoft's "gatekeeper of funding," spent the weekend devising ways to raise the stakes in the fight for Yahoo now that the company's original proposal has been rejected, holding a series of marathon conference calls with his cadre of Wall Street advisers.

Last weekend, both companies held a marathon of conference calls to consider withdrawing their proposal before the commission formally blocks it.

Lebow asked Shorter to attend his only marathon press conference, held a few weeks before the October race.

While he said Christie had done "an excellent job" answering questions at Thursday's marathon press conference, McCain conceded that any further revelations might prove problematic.

But the Russian president conceded there were military intelligence officers operating in the country in a marathon press conference on Thursday.

At the end of the marathon news conference, after all the questions had been answered and all the optimistic responses had been given, Phillips asked reporters a question.