But these events mostly serve as platforms for dialogues, for lumbering intellectual table tennis.
STOCK EXCHANGES serve as platforms for companies to raise money by public share-listing.
Free weights are lined up on the floor, along with hammered-together wooden boxes that serve as platforms for step-ups and standing jumps.
Clear glass bricks, imitating blocks of ice, serve as platforms for oysters paired with a perfectly balanced mango-curry sorbet, sweetly spicy and, seemingly against the odds, the ideal foil for the salt and brine of the oysters.
Several busts lined up in a row appear to be doing the singing in the opera's opening chorus, and display cases sometimes serve as platforms for the delivery of arias.
These safe havens could serve as platforms for the delivery of humanitarian and military assistance – including weapons and ammunition, body armor and other personal protective equipment, tactical intelligence, secure communications equipment, food and water, and medical supplies.
Even so, "insurgents maintained influence in many rural areas that serve as platforms to attack urban areas and were able to carry out attacks with roughly the same frequency as in 2012 — although these attacks tended to be in less populated areas," it said.
Learning factories serve as platforms to ensure research findings are disseminated into industrial practice.
Multifunctional devices will serve as platforms that make single-function devices obsolete.
Nokta properties serve as platforms for sharing all forms of user generated content.
Geo-databases may serve as platforms to integrate 2D maps, 3D geo-scientific models, and other geo-referenced data.
