Sentence examples for parallel meeting from inspiring English sources

State Department officials called the parallel meeting the World Forum on Democracy, seeming to echo the title of the annual conference at Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Bush's aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations' process — hijacking it, as his critics charge.

There are hints in the Arab press that 9/11 is beginning to prompt a greater reflectiveness, and it was encouraging that this week's Arab summit meeting included a parallel meeting of nongovernmental organizations.

A few blocks from the high-level meeting, civil society groups held a parallel meeting to discuss government commitments to gender equality and hold their leaders to account for their promises.

At a parallel meeting, foreign ministers from more than 100 countries will discuss ways of further strengthening the democratic cause.And there is even better news on the way, if you believe the Internet enthusiasts.

Two prominent groups, the Washington-based Freedom House, and the Stefan Batory Foundation, which was founded in Poland by the financier George Soros, were asked by the State Department to organize the parallel meeting, featuring speeches by human rights figures from around the world.

The discussions themselves will involve parallel meetings between Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and their Russian counterparts.

No industry representatives were invited to these parallel meetings which were at least as numerous, and by all accounts longer, than those held with the industry.

Here's Robinson's take on discussions, at two parallel meetings of experts on environmental law, of potential innovations in that arena: The consensus of the two conferences of environmental lawyers is that the environmental problems of irreversible global change have become grave and require new legal principles and practices.

These parallel meetings were crucial for instilling non-violent, respectful and robust critiques of others and for strategising for the next steps.

Spin-off groups refer to parallel meetings that tackle specific parts of the negotiating text.