After outfielder Elijah Dukes made a personal appearance at a Virginia Little League's season-opening gathering Saturday, a few hours before a Washington Nationals game, he turned up late at his day job and was fined.
From a stone seat close by the spot where a 12th-century archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas à Becket, was murdered by Norman knights seeking to end the archbishop's defiance of King Henry II, Archbishop Williams led a Eucharist marking the formal opening of a gathering that many in the church have described as a make-or-break moment.
The reference to storms ahead also links the final words of the speech back to the opening mention of "gathering clouds and raging storms".
At the gathering's opening reception, in a meeting room that opened onto a verandah overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Mr. Skelos was among the first elected officials to address the crowd, vowing to work with the Hispanic community toward job creation.
In an opening speech to the gathering, Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denounced the policies of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as its support for Israel.
In his opening speech to a gathering of Arab monarchs, presidents-for-life and sundry other leaders in Amman, Jordan, King Abdullah II said 300 million Arab people would like their governments to speak with one voice.
Dr. Allawi, a 59-year-old physician who came to the prime minister's post with a reputation for toughness, made a brief opening address to the gathering that suggested that he had little intention of backing down over Najaf, which he visited a week ago, vowing "no negotiations or truce" with Mr. Sadr.
Perhaps it was this juxtaposition of terrorism and recent weather extremes that led to COP21 opening with the largest gathering of world leaders in history - all pledging to take on the formidable challenge of climate change.
32 GCRS is designed to assess overall communication effectiveness of the entire doctor patient consultation, encapsulating the quality of the interaction from the opening moments, through the gathering of information, provision of information, achieving shared understanding and shared decision-making, through to closure.
Sometimes the advertising meetings where a show's producers gather with their marketing team and publicists the day after an opening is a dismal, desperate gathering focused on combing bad reviews for a few positive, exploitable quotations.
But that was in the gathering's slow opening hours.
