Sentence examples for summit ceremony from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clinton pushed the issue of ground troops off the table by convincing NATO's Secretary General, Javier Solana, to announce a formal assessment of ground-troop options in the weeks after the summit ceremony.

To make sure these young voices are heard, the two AYF representatives selected by their peers will read key points from the call to action on 25 July at the AU Summit ceremony for Heads of State, and again the next day at the First Ladies of Africa meeting.

At the UN climate change summit opening ceremony in 2009, the Chinese President Hu Jintao proposed to raise vigorously forest carbon sequestration in China and promised to increase our forest area by 40 million hectares and our forest volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters by the year 2020 from the 2005 level (Hu [2009]).

Some officials and scientists did manage to reach the construction site at the summit, but the ceremony's organizers had to cancel planned speeches and locally flavored ceremonies intended to officially begin the project, including the untying of the maile lei and turning of dirt with an O'o stick.

Indeed, four leaders skipped the summit's opening ceremony.

At the summit's opening ceremony on Saturday, Mr. Chávez sought to bring OPEC back to its militant and revolutionary roots.

The main business at Friday's summit was a ceremony in which 25 EU countries signed up for a new "fiscal compact" to restore stability to the single currency area.

At about 10 30 a.m., a group of Marines raised a 54-inch-by-28-inch American flag at the summit, and the ceremony was photographed by Sgt. Louis Lowery of the Marine magazine Leatherneck.

Hours before the summit's opening ceremony, the city's pollution levels hovered at levels deemed "unhealthy" by the US embassy in Beijing's air monitoring system.

For this purpose there is a miniature palace on the summit for the ceremony to take place.

But while the summit's opening ceremony may have been held at the Auberge de Castille, built in the 1500s by an order of knights renowned for their charitable activities, the city also boasts a less welcoming landmark.