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"convener" Definitions
  1. a person who arranges meetings of groups or committees
  2. (British English) a senior official of a trade union at a factory or other place of work

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Rudolph is a master convener, as well as a talented percussionist.
Drew English, convener of the Environment Centre Northern Territory, welcomed the ruling.
He is a social animal: an eager collaborator, a convener of groups.
In this movement, Sunkara is something like a head convener or ideologue.
Our independent physician organization is a convener in the government's bundled-payment program.
" After the news conference, Ryan tweeted that she is "a journalist not a convener!
Terry Hughes, convener of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, said in a press release.
So, we may be the convener but we're very much just one of a really important coalition.
M.A. Britto, convener of the Campaign Against the "Camp Coolie" (Sumangali) System said such reports were common.
Bonnie Leung, the vice convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, said that if Beijing selects Mrs.
Now, almost overnight, the ambassador risks going from bipartisan Washington convener to ostracized foreigner at Trump's direction.
"Carrie Lam is continuing to lie," said Jimmy Sham, the convener of the Civil Human Rights Front.
The time for the U.S. to act as a neutral convener — an "honest broker" — has come to an end.
In its aftermath, I was appointed as deputy convener of the UK government's working group on tackling radicalization and extremism.
"Carrie Lam is continuing to lie," Jimmy Sham, the convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, said, according to Reuters.
It serves as a convener and connector, bringing women together across backgrounds and beliefs to engage and inspire each other.
Imran H. Sarker, convener of the BOAN online activist group, said Samad was an outspoken critic of injustice and militancy.
Another option for Beijing, if it wants a business leader, would seem to be Bernard Chan, the convener of Mrs.
"Court trials can go on for years," said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour.
"They want to continue to have a voice in the community to be a convener of important social conversations," he said.
The Bauhaus, which translates literally as "House of Building," aimed to make architecture the convener and unifier of all the arts.
TIG had a "convener" in Gavin Shuker MP at the time of writing, but no leader, manifesto, or official party status.
In this model, the government acts as a convener of interested parties to help develop guidance, best practices or other voluntary policies.
For fifty-one years, Institutional Investor has consistently distinguished itself as the world's foremost financial publication and convener of global institutional investors.
" Ryan tweeted at Trump after Thursday's press conference, thanking him for his time but noting she is "a journalist not a convener!
David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner is co-convener of the National African American Clergy Network.
Italy was an effective convener for global efforts to support struggling nations after the Arab Spring roiled the Middle East and North Africa.
Still others would do best to serve as the convener who opens and closes the sessions but does not participate in the discussion.
Tim Regan, the head of Whiting-Turner a large construction firm which signed up, says that Mr Daniels has tremendous power as a convener.
Leo is, rather, a convener and a networker, and he has met and cultivated almost every important Republican lawyer in more than a generation.
"In the last few years, we were kind of defeatists," says Bonnie Leung, who served as the vice convener of the CHRF until October.
"We welcome any possibilities to speed up the provision of temporary housing," said Lai Kin-kwok, convener of Platform Concerning Subdivided Flats in Hong Kong.
"The statement that the former mayor is making is completely untrue," said Imam W. Deen Shareef, convener of the Council of Imams in New Jersey.
Unlike the president of the European Council, the body comprising the 28 leaders of the EU member states, the commission president is more than a convener.
"Since beginning of campaigns in Oct 2018, more than 260 politically motivated deaths," Clement Nwankwo, convener of the Situation Room, which had 9,000 observers, told reporters.
"Our fight against the government will continue," said Karma Oraon, convener of tribal rights group Jharkhand Adivasi Sangharsh Morcha, which organized the weekend rally in Ranchi.
Eric Lai, the vice convener of the march organizer, the Civil Human Rights Front, said he hoped to avoid a recurrence of the previous night's violence.
Bruce E. WexlerNew HavenThe writer, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, served as convener of the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East.
Karen Pearl is the co-convener of the Food is Medicine Coalition and the president & CEO of God's Love We Deliver, a provider of medically tailored meals.
Lam's withdrawal of the bill was not "too little, too late," Bernard Chan, convener of the executive council of Hong Kong told CNBC before Lam's Thursday briefing.
Amos Chibaya, the MDC national organizing secretary and convener of the planned protests, was questioned by police and detained in a cell overnight, lawyer Obey Shava told Reuters.
The convener of Nigeria's "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign, Oby Ezekwesili, also signed, as did actors and comedians including Meryl Streep, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer and Juliette Binoche.
"The government has promised to meet our demands and we have promised our full cooperation," Ramesh Dalal, convener of the Jat Arakshan Andolan (Jat Reservation Movement), told Reuters.
Siraj Ahmad, convener of a committee representing trade bodies in Jammu and Kashmir, said most residents supported the pilgrimage but were frustrated over the disruption to their lives.
"The government has the responsibility to rehabilitate these workers," said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour, who filed the petition last week.
Although Mr Putin poses as the arbiter of Syria's fate and the convener of the peace process, he has little control over other actors, with their own competing agendas.
"We are very happy about it," said Ashwani Mahajan, who worked as Gurumurthy's fellow co-convener at the Manch, and who has known him for more than 25 years.
She is currently the vice chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors and convener of Mission 2020, a group aiming to bring new urgency to the global climate conversation.
The convener of the symposium, SUNY Buffalo professor and Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America author James Campbell, shared this chart summarizing how close various models got last cycle.
"They believe there is no ill in the practice, as it has been going on for years," said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour.
Jimmy Sham, convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, which has organized a series of protests, said Lam should meet the protesters' demands and stop using "words to cheat the public".
Onstage he is intense, prowling, ebullient; he referred to himself in an interview with NPR as "a human acoustic D.J.," and he functions as convener and ringleader as much as singer.
Melanie Campbell, chair of Sisters Lead, Sisters Vote and the National Convener of the Black Women's Roundtable, helped create a coalition that wrote to Pelosi and Schumer, expressing full support for Waters.
Jimmy Sham, convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, which has organised a string of major protests against the extradition bill, said the root problem was Hong Kong's lack of full democracy.
"There is undoubtedly a broad acceptance now in government and among the electorate that change has to happen," Ailbhe Smyth, the convener of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, told me.
But beyond that, the idea that this space that sits on the National Mall can be the convener of a national, of a global conversation around African art — it's an ambitious statement.
The former co-convener of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the economic wing of the RSS, has shaken up the central bank, say those who know him and are familiar with recent board meetings.
"We've seen an exponential rise in the popularity of electric vehicles over the last few years, and we want to see this continue," Lesley Macinnes, transport and environment convener, said in a statement.
"Both parents and their daughters are victims in these cases ... they are both bonded in different forms of slavery," said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labor.
Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour - a network of campaigners - said Devi's baby was severely malnourished when he was rescued and his condition is still critical.
Our goal is to act as a convener and catalyst for political reform efforts, to bring forward the best ideas for returning to the compromise and consensus-building on which this country was founded.
"Because these players are so socially conscious and so community minded, I think that gives us a story and a platform for the W to be a convener around social issues," she told me.
"We are totally dependent on water lorries and they are taking advantage of that fact," said Raman Duraiswamy, convener of the Sholinganallur constituency welfare association, an umbrella body that has 600 resident associations as members.
Mewat is popular with the Rohingya because locals have given them land, said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour, who helped rescue 113 enslaved Rohingya workers last month.
"Some stock is moving, the material that's clean has been exported, but at much lower prices than it was when China was buying," said Max Spedding, convener of Australia's National Waste and Recycling Industry Council.
"Already, trying to convince parents to keep their daughters in school is a challenge," said Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign that drew international attention to the Chibok abductions.
"We don't need you to set a table for us," said Melanie Campbell, the president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the convener of the Black Women's Roundtable Public Policy Network.
They said they would not support the meeting unless France, as the convener, ensured "all parties to the conflict participate and engage in good faith, guided by the sole objective of alleviating the suffering of Yemenis".
The office also placed me into a new role called "Convener" for "Ethical Life," asking me in other words to convene people across campus to reflect on how to live an ethical life from a secular perspective.
Didymus Mutasa, a senior official from Mujuru's party and convener of Friday's protest, vowed to repeat the demonstration a week from now and blamed police for the violence and disobeying a court order allowing the march to proceed.
After finishing her term as executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in July, she became convener of "Mission 2020", a global initiative that seeks to bend the curve on greenhouse gas emissions downwards by 2020.
Derek Mackay, a member of the Scottish parliament and SNP Business Convener, said if May continued pursuing what her critics call a "hard Brexit "then more and more people will see independence as the option delivering certainty and stability.
"There is a need for the government to look into this whole issue and make an amendment in the law forbidding these companies from charging a patent amount," Ashwani Mahajan, National Co-Convener of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, told Reuters.
An advisory group of fellows has also been established, including such thinkers and experts as Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom, University of Manchester economist Diane Coyle, Princeton University computer scientist Edward W. Felten, and Mission 2020 convener Christiana Figueres, among others.
The Women's March has been "a really powerful convener of women around the country and around the world," Kraal said, an apt description for a group whose influence has come, in large part, from its ability to bring together other groups.
Hong Kong National Party (HKNP) convener Andy Chan said he had been served with documents by police Tuesday stating they were recommending his organization be banned under the Societies Ordinance, which has never before been used to prohibit a political party.
But anyone who's ever covered Congress (I did, for a while) can discern on the page what was discernible in real life: the bartender aspect of Biden's character, the natural convener who reads customers well enough to put them at ease.
"Our first principle is always to protect all the participants and make sure that no one bears legal consequences because of participating in the protest that we organized," said Bonnie Leung, vice convener of organizing group Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF).
"The government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think national security matters," said Lin Yu-fang, a convener for the Taipei-based National Policy Foundation and former head of Taiwan's congressional defense and foreign committee.
Aisha Oyebode, a co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, spoke about the ongoing struggle to find and return the 276 girls that were kidnapped from a school in Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram back in 2014 (57 girls have escaped so far).
"The prime minister publicly promised farmers - in 2014 and 2017 - to help them get their payments within 15 days of selling their produce to sugar mills," said M.V. Singh, convener of the Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sang, or National Forum of Farmers and Labourers.
Here's what being a convener looks like: In 2018, after a successful pilot conducted in 2017, the council will fund a 12-week digital skills development program that will see more than 1,000 Indigenous people learn skills like web development and software testing.
"You have to ask whether it is desirable for the fortunes of a single industry to have such a large bearing on whether our economy grows," Andy Willox, the Scottish policy convener of the Federation of Small Businesses, said in a statement.
"Our first principle is always to protect all the participants and make sure that no one bears legal consequences because of participating in the protest that we organized," CHRF vice convener Bonnie Leung said in a statement after calling off the march.
The organizers of the meeting include Bill Wichterman, who was President George W. Bush's liaison to the conservative movement; Bob Fischer, a South Dakota businessman and longtime conservative convener; and Erick Erickson, the outspoken Trump opponent and conservative activist who founded RedState.com.
"Al-Bashir is subject to two arrest warrants on suspicion of being responsible for massive human rights violations amounting to the most serious of crimes," said William Pace, the convener of the Coalition for the I.C.C., a nongovernmental organization that promotes cooperation with the court.
"The EC has played a biased role in cancelling nominations, as almost no nominations from the ruling party were rejected," said Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convener of Nagarik Oikya, a partner in the alliance that seeks to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League from power.
After joining the First Nations Technology Council, Williams told me over the phone, she helped the organization pivot from trying to be a service provider and software developer itself to, as she put it, "be a convener" for stakeholders that have the resources to make things better.
Mr. Chan, the convener of the Executive Council, told a local radio station that the massive downtown street conflict between the police and demonstrators on Wednesday had forced a rethink of the government's earlier plan to put the bill up for a vote by next week.
Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, Cornell William Brooks, president of the N.A.A.C.P., Melanie L. Campbell, convener of the Black Women's Roundtable Public Policy Network, and Marc H. Morial, the chief executive of the National Urban League, according to Rachel Noerdlinger, a spokeswoman for Mr. Sharpton.
And by threatening to blow up any deal that does not meet his sometimes inconsistent demands, he may win some concessions at the expense of undermining America's traditional role as a mediator and convener of negotiations, which Washington has relied on to promote its interests in international forums.
In "Full Mantis," Mr. Graves is the only speaker, which makes for both a captivating sound poem (philosophical speech interleaved with performances) and a risk: It positions him as a solitary figure, too far ahead to relate to, whereas, in fact, he's always been a convener and a sharer.
Clement Nwankwo, convener of the Situation Room, which represents more than 70 civil society groups, said there had been a few reports from some of the organization's 9,000 observers of "instances in which the ballots have been exposed", although he said the scale of the problem was not clear.
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People's Congress, said it was important for the election to proceed smoothly and stressed the significance of the chief executive's role as a link between Beijing and the Asian financial hub, according to the convener of the Hong Kong delegation to the congress, Maria Tam.
Wong is the former convener of student group Scholarism, which helped lead mass protests in 2012 that successfully saw off a plan to introduce "moral and national education" classes in Hong Kong schools, which many saw as an attempt by Beijing to exercise greater control over the Special Administrative Region.
Since 1962, when the military took power in a coup, no new mosques have been opened -- a bone of contention for many Muslims as cities like Yangon expand, says Aye Lwin, chief convener of the Islamic Center of Myanmar and a commissioner on the government's Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.
Kowloon Mosque and Chungking Mansions had been on high alert ahead of the march amid fears that there would be retribution against the city's ethnic minority groups after Civil Human Rights Front's convener Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit was attacked by people described to be of South Asian descent last Wednesday.
Figueres, who is the convener of Mission 2020, a campaign that aims for global emissions to start falling from next year, said failing to protect infrastructure from climate change impacts, such as floods and storms, would leach away the budgets communities, cities and countries could otherwise spend on ending poverty and hunger.
"In the primary, we're not looking to hold our noses and vote for a candidate we don't believe in," says Aimee Allison, a black woman and the founder and president of She the People, an organization focused on boosting the voice of women of color in politics and the convener of the April presidential forum.
While No Labels will continue to proffer solutions and serve as a politically neutral convener for a growing group of members of Congress committed to solving national challenges, including comprehensive immigration reform, it is critical that other voices in the media, academia and the general public rise with a passionate outcry: enough is enough.
The event was organized by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonprofit think tank founded just a few years ago that quickly established itself as a convener of well-attended cybersecurity events, a facilitator of Capitol Hill briefings, and the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars in sponsorships from top private sector security vendors.

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