"It's absolutely legitimate and that's how our political system works and that's why the two local MPs have brought this to my attention, that's why I convened the meeting of the experts, that's why I led the meeting with the local councils and that's why I hope we will have a very clear action plan presented to me in six weeks' time so that I can make a categoric decision once and for all.
No. That's why I convened a fiscal responsibility summit, started in this room, to start looking at entitlements and to start looking at the big drivers of costs over the long term.
"So I convened a meeting".
Realizing that my friends need help in starting a team from scratch, I convened a distinguished group of sporty academics by e-mail messages.
The next day, I convened with my team of four for a "bridge meeting".
On the day Penn State broke, I convened the university leadership to ask a question surely being considered in boardrooms around the country: how can we make sure that could never happen here?
Shortly before I left Uganda, I convened an expert panel of my own.
After the election I convened cross-party talks.
It is here, among the lunchtime labourers and lorry drivers, their faces buried in the sports pages of the Sun and Star, that I have convened with Bob Stanley, songwriter with celebrated postmodern pop group Saint Etienne and film-maker and one-time band member Paul Kelly to begin a short, guided tour of the area.
The climate summit that I am convening one week from today has two goals: to mobilise political will for a universal and meaningful climate agreement next year in Paris; and second to generate ambitious steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience.
