In other words, after taking over the seminar committee, I was better able to deflect requests to take on other tasks that I didn't have the time or interest in doing.
PHOENIX — The scene at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale on Wednesday was a convention organizer's dream: more than 1,000 delegates, many of them top leaders in the travel industry, hobnobbing over seminars and golf.
We now feel a bit like the dog being wagged by its tail: in the past five years, we've given over 700 seminars and conference lectures.
A NY Times #1 Bestselling Author with now over 55 publications to his name, John-Roger has given over 6,000 seminars, all with the focus of Soul Transcendence: "becoming aware of yourself as a Soul and as one with God, not as a theory but as a living reality".
Third, the Bank conducted over 60 seminars and workshops on the economics of tobacco in general and taxation in particular, which were held in developing countries and open to governmental officials, public health experts and tobacco control advocates.
Les and Leslie Parrott, marriage experts imported by the governor from Seattle Pacific University, presided over the seminar.
Looming over a seminar table, I struck students dumb: the tallest person in the room is usually the loudest.
The professors and students were diplomatic, but a pall of boredom fell over the seminar table when my work was under discussion.
By presiding over this seminar, Justice Scalia would provide strong reasons to doubt his impartiality when he ruled later on any topic discussed there.
