Sentence examples for organization convened from inspiring English sources

It is a membership organization convened to address broad concerns of the church; it is not a national governing body.

Hard to believe a full decade has passed since Edward Arron, a skillful young cellist with a flair for programming and a knack for organization, convened a group of his peers for a new chamber music initiative, the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert.

When the Rev. Billy Graham's organization convened a conference of more than 10,000 evangelists from around the world in Amsterdam on July 29, the event was described as notable for its size and its extraordinary international composition, with people from more than 200 nations and territories represented.

The organization convenes groups in towns and neighborhoods for sessions structured like the conflict-resolution talks they've hosted for years.

Here is our Phrase of the Month, from an educational reform organization: "convening stakeholders to develop action plans to promote standards reform, and initiating implementation of those plans".

The festival, an artist-run nonprofit organization, convenes each year to celebrate the precise set of values that has animated his career.

The Board of Governors, which is responsible for managing the organization, convening the Conference, and drawing up the annual budget, contains representatives appointed by each member country; its chair is elected to a one-year term by the Conference.

The organization convenes a panel consisting of an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, and a genetics expert who verify gender on a case-by-case basis.

Jewish and Muslim organizations convened this week in Berlin and Brussels to protest the ruling vigorously, and they said they had been inundated with calls from confused parents.

(In December 2000 private Japanese and international organizations convened a war tribunal that found Emperor Hirohito "guilty of responsibility for rape and sexual slavery").

Koolhaas was delivering the opening lecture of a new event called the Festival of Ideas for the New City, presented by a consortium of downtown organizations convened by the New Museum.