town meeting

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Recent Examples of town meeting The actions were taken Wednesday after a special town meeting on Tuesday in which hundreds of outraged residents, many of them parents, demanded answers about who knew what and when. Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024 Residents packed a town meeting to express their outrage. Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024 He is mentioned in a 2017 newspaper article for speaking out at a town meeting against a resolution pledging to create a welcoming environment for immigrants, including undocumented ones. Richard Fausset, New York Times, 10 June 2024 The film's conflict occurs primarily in a single scene: a town meeting wherein two developers (pictured here) show face among locals in a haphazard attempt to garner community support for their plans. Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for town meeting 
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Noun
  • The film's co-producer, Robert G. Marbut Jr., will moderate a post-screening panel discussion.
    Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • At a separate panel discussion during the event, featuring top executives from major financial institutions like Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered and State Street, the moderator posed a question about potential Federal Reserve actions.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • House Democrats initially planned to hold their leadership elections on Friday, but a handful of outstanding races prompted the caucus to reschedule the meeting.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
  • On Thursday, Braun plans to meet with Indiana House and Senate Republican caucuses, as well as Holcomb.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • What is the Gateway Church? Gateway Church was founded in 2000 and is now one of the largest congregations in the nation, with an attendance of over 25,000.
    Jenna Sundel, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Some Ethiopian children continue to attend the Lutheran afterschool program, and the congregation has joined several others in helping hundreds of newcomers with everything from meals to furniture to winter clothing.
    Giovanna Dell'orto, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Tangent Republicans control both the State assembly and Senate in Wisconsin, and the governor’s office is held by Democrat Tony Evers.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Once all testing has been completed, Aptera's goal for full-scale production will be 40 vehicles per day from its final assembly plant in Carlsbad, California.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • At previous synods, women were only allowed more marginal roles of observers or experts, literally seated in the last row of the audience hall while the bishops and cardinals took the front rows and voted.
    Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the Polish Pope’s world view, anti-Communism and traditionalism were inextricably combined; for him, renewal had spread out of control, and the regional synods were part of the problem.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • Part one of the symposium will take place 4:45-5:30 p.m. June 27 during the Black & Minority Health Fair, when expert panelists will discuss the importance of self-care and how to seek mental health support when needed for seniors and senior caregivers.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2024
  • The same day, Republican Steve Garvey was at Temple University in Pennsylvania, picking up an award at a women’s sports media symposium.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On Monday, a group of Cypriot and Egyptian officials started a two-day seminar on maritime cybersecurity led by the U.S. based Sandia National Laboratories.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Hosting informational seminars, webinars and one-on-one consultations can help demystify the process and highlight the potential advantages of diversifying their TSP investments.
    Rick Harbus, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In 2021 and 2022, Cannon took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its law school for Scalia thanks to $30 million in gifts that conservative judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo helped organize.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2024
  • In 2017 Perlin organized a colloquium on Eunice Foote (an American scientist who, in 1856, was the first to argue that putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere could cause climate change).
    Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024

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