Sentence examples for mixed gathering from inspiring English sources

After a scuffle, some of the Klan and Nazis opened fire on the mostly unarmed, racially mixed gathering of political activists, labor organizers, and children.

Forming a very mixed gathering that evokes the homeless, loners, extreme fashionistas, transvestites and members of other subcultures, these beings pay tribute to difference, eccentricity and imagination.

The game, played on a recent afternoon, was a typical mixed gathering for Pyramid Hill, a one-pub town of around 500 people in central Victoria that has become a model of rural revival and multicultural integration.

Both speakers emphasised how most Muslims are blissfully unaware of the vast riches of the Islamic intellectual tradition: Hamza Yusuf citing Ibn Taymiyya (d 1328) who allowed a woman to lead ritual prayer for a mixed gathering – as long as she did so from the back of the group.

Upon its introduction to New York in 1893 and to London in 1894, it almost immediately supplanted whist in the card rooms of men's clubs, and before 1900 it was the favourite diversion of fashionable mixed gatherings.

Liberals fear that at this rate of official capitulation, mixed gatherings such as New Year's Eve parties and the kite-flying festival of Basant in February will soon come under vigilante attack.

He answered, very sternly: "That is not the sort of music to be played for mixed gatherings and in a flippant manner.

Men and women chew qat in gender-specific sessions, although some avant-garde families hold mixed gatherings.

Manners dictate that one avoids politics at mixed partisan gatherings, but if you are determined to annoy certain family members, what better gift than the Obama Birth Certificate dish, which arrives today at the Manhattan housewares store Fishs Eddy?

She points out, for example, that men and women differ in their gregariouness depending on whether they're in private or public, same-sex or mixed-sex gatherings.

Totemism is manifested in various forms and types in different contexts and is most often found among populations whose traditional economies relied on hunting and gathering, mixed farming with hunting and gathering, or emphasized the raising of cattle.