Sentence examples for serious gathering from inspiring English sources

This year, for the first time, the conference has begun to resemble a serious gathering of journalists: we have a press centre in St Moritz, we have press briefings, fringe meetings, text updates; an organization called 'Transparency Bilderberg' is holding debates at the Randolins hotel.

The Obama team has been fairly consistent in its staging of events and could use as its model the election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago — a celebratory but serious gathering, striking in its simplicity, at which Mr. Obama tried to raise hopes but not expectations.

Holmes became known as a poet who expressed the benefits of loyalty and trust at serious gatherings, as well as one who showed wit at festivities and celebrations.

"It is instructive to look at the past for guidance when it comes to the need to be very serious about gathering all the facts," Carney says.

The press secretary, Jay Carney, said the White House would "look at the past for guidance when it comes to the need to be very serious about gathering all the facts, establishing chain of custody, linking evidence of the use of chemical weapons to specific incidents and actions taken by the regime".

And even as American television viewers migrate to the Internet to get their news, if they get it at all, the evening news — whether on NBC or ABC or CBS — remains a bellwether of the viability of a network news operation, and of its commitment to serious news gathering.

HX FISC once raised more than 30,000 yuan for a child with acute leukemia as well as subsidies for serious diseases, gathering support by selling hand-made silk flowers and other gifts.

Media organizations have serious difficulties gathering evidence about the extent of the wealth accumulated in China and overseas by current and retired CCP leaders and their offspring.

The anchor goes into way more detail you ever wanted to know but he uses it to make one of his key points: for-profit corporations make lousy custodians of serious news gathering and reporting.

It's now permissible to appear in your own book, it seems, as long as there's evidence of serious knowledge-gathering too.

My waterfowling is no longer a serious food-gathering effort, but a ritual -- akin to re-reading a favorite poem -- that sustains my love of wet and wild places and their denizens.