Ehud Barak

In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice, and there is a major movement among academics, politicians, thinkers, and public leaders for peace, even at a painful price. On the Palestinian side, you can find them individually here and there, but there is no public movement.

Israeli Statesman

Jules Verne

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

French Author

Joyce Banda

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Politician

Jeanne Marie Laskas

In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.

American Writer

Kamala Harris

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

American Vice President

Lloyd Blankfein

We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.

American Businessman

John Conyers

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

American Politician

Lidia Bastianich

There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.

American Chef

Pete McCloskey

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Marcus Buckingham

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

British Author

Used when referring to the action of gathering people for formal discussions or decisions.

Meeting Context

Implies the act of starting or beginning a meeting, not just the meeting itself.

Initiating a Meeting

Typically used in formal scenarios to mark the official start of gatherings.

Formal Opening

Often the person in charge is responsible for convening the event.

Leadership Role

In a legal context, convene is used when a figure of authority calls for a gathering.

Legal Authority

When used legally, people are often obligated to attend the convened session.

Mandatory Attendance

Implies organizing an event open to the public or of public interest, often by media.

Public Events

Used when media companies bring together journalists and reporters.

Media Gatherings

 What lies before us is to expand them and scale them up. So how would you shift from linear to circular? Well, the team and I at the foundation thought you might want to work with the top universities in the world, with leading businesses within the world, with the biggest convening platforms in the world,

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 Furthermore, the statue was so detailed and lifelike, down to the bulging veins in David's arm and the determination on his face, that it seemed a shame to hide it so far from the viewer. A council of politicians and artists convened to decide on a new location for the statue.

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 This is what it looks like. For the first time in human history, we share a global commons, where, irrespective of where we are in the physical world, we can convene and share information freely. Most people at that time couldn't see what it meant

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 You know, from the hindsight of history, what's always most inexplicable and inexcusable are the simple failures of compassion. Because I think history convenes a tribunal of our grandchildren

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 that world media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals it's more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting

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 There is a carbon calculator. Participant Productions convened -- with my active involvement -- the leading software writers in the world, on this arcane science of carbon calculation,

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 the same governments convened in Copenhagen and failed miserably. Why did it fail miserably? For many different reasons, but primarily because of the deeply entrenched divide

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 we were going to maybe the most beautiful place in the world and instead of being convened by the beauty or by

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