(n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
(n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
(n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
(n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
(n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
(n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
Example Sentences:
(1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
(8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
(9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
(12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
(14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
(16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
(20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
Keynote
Definition:
(n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.
(n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
Example Sentences:
(1) During his MIPCOM keynote, he also took a pop at Rising Star, a much-hyped format that saw a wall lowered to reveal contestants to the studio audience if enough people voted at home.
(2) In a keynote speech at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, America's first black president said he and others of his generation had greatly benefited from the era of civil rights ushered in by the legislation that was passed by Johnson in 1964.
(3) May was preparing to visit the Gulf Co-operation Council early this week, and Johnson himself is scheduled to make the keynote address at a high-profile security conference in Bahrain this weekend.
(4) In his keynote speech in Manchester , Ed Miliband taunted the prime minister for lying awake at night worrying not about the future of the United Kingdom but rather the United Kingdom Independence party.
(5) Mauricio Funes, the president of El Salvador and a keynote speaker at Thursday's World Bank event, laid out the key components of these integrated approaches, looking to a reform initiative already underway in the small country, that is yielding slow but steady results.
(6) Cameron is to deliver a keynote speech on Britain’s role in the EU on Thursday in Davos.
(7) His aides said the keynote speech was not a call for revolution across the region, but to recognise that the west cannot stand aside from struggles such as the one in Syria.
(8) CPAC performance: Cruz was the keynote speaker at CPAC 2013, a prime spot in the lineup, and he came out and gave a special introduction to Sarah Palin.
(9) Read more Following her keynote speech, Clinton answered questions from tech columnist Kara Swisher, of Recode, touching on topics such as Edward Snowden, net neutrality and, of course, her prospective presidential run.
(10) In the buildup to the keynote address, the convention listened to a series of tributes from members of his Mormon church, former business colleagues and fellow politicians.
(11) Salmond himself will make several more keynote speeches as he eases himself back into the saddle.
(12) Abbott on Thursday night used a keynote address to the World Economic Forum to outline his objectives for a G20 meeting in Brisbane, lay down some broad philosophical markers for his new government on the subject of economic policy, and deliver a clip around the ears for Labor.
(13) Only one of his sculptures is here, while several more are in The Encyclopaedic Palace, the keynote show of the current Venice Biennale, which opened last week.
(14) Its keynote speaker will be Alex Salmond , the first minister and Scottish National party leader whose landslide victory two years ago in the Scottish parliament elections delivered the referendum that had been, until now, an 80-year-old dream for his party.
(15) Nurses are angry that Lansley refused to deliver a keynote speech to the conference, opting instead to meet a group of around 60 nurses in Liverpool as part of a listening exercise on the controversial reforms.
(16) The grim figures are being publicised by the unions today in advance of the opening of the keynote International Trade Fair in the northern city of Thessaloniki and the arrival on Friday of leading monitors from Greece's "troika" of creditors, the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.
(17) I think a lot of voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally, so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment their question is not, ‘Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?’ or, you know, ‘How exactly are you going to enforce these tests?’ What they hear is we’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.” During his speech at the Republican national convention, which Thiel attended as a keynote speaker , Trump was interrupted with chants of “Build a wall.” Thiel also defended Trump’s failure to release his tax returns, saying that we know enough about the candidate’s business dealings.
(18) Clinton made the comments in a question and answer session following a keynote address to technology executives at the “Lead On” conference in Santa Clara, organised by Watermark .
(19) On Saturday he was the keynote speaker at the Manama Dialogue, a prestigious strategic conference held annually in the Bahraini capital.
(20) After talks in Riyadh, Obama will deliver a keynote speech in Cairo .