As the delegates made their way to the conference by train, Germany was invading Belgium.

They are elected for life from among the ordained elders ( presbyters ) by vote of the delegates in regional ( called jurisdictional ) conferences, and are consecrated by the other bishops present at the conference through the laying on of hands.

At the 19th Conference, the first party conference held since 1941, several delegates asked for the introduction of term limits, and an end to appointments of officials, and to introduce multi-candidate elections within the party.

Each member state has four representatives at the conference: two government delegates, an employer delegate and a worker delegate.

In 1978, the Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation was formed at a conference of delegates from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in the Indian town of Villai.

In the approach to World War I, Beirut became a center of various reforming movements, and would send delegates to the Arab Syrian conference and Franco-Syrian conference held in Paris.

The 3rd Annual Conference of the League, held in London on 29 May 1887 marked the change, with a majority of the 24 branch delegates voting in favor of an anarchist-sponsored resolution declaring that " This conference endorses the policy of abstention from parliamentary action, hitherto pursued by the League, and sees no sufficient reason for altering it.

Significantly, about 20 % of the conference delegates were from Africa, with Filipinos and Europeans making up another 10 %.

During the conference, the delegates voted to finalize the induction of the Methodist Church of the Ivory Coast and its 700, 000 members into the denomination.

The 3rd Annual Conference of the League, held in London on 29 May 1887 marked the change, with a majority of the 24 branch delegates voting in favor of an anarchist-sponsored resolution declaring that " This conference endorses the policy of abstention from parliamentary action, hitherto pursued by the League, and sees no sufficient reason for altering it.

* December 21 – Six people, including Carlos ( the Jackal ), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were established by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and became operational in 1946.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were designed by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and the World Bank, then consisting of only the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, became operational in 1946.

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The US assistant secretary of state for European affairs told delegates at a NATO conference in Croatia that he hoped that Kosovo's future could be resolved in the months leading up to the alliance's next summit meeting in Romania in April of that year.

As a result of strong pressure from delegates upset with Lumumba's trial, he was released and allowed to attend the Brussels conference.

The new Grooter Nederland-Actie ( Extended Netherlands Action ) send delegates to this conference, who noted Eurasians should be able to retain their culture and position ; some Eurasians mentioned New Guinea as a possible homeland for Eurasians.

Thirty delegates attended a founding conference, held in September 1938, in the home of Alfred Rosmer just outside Paris.

On another occasion he played a joke on the assembled delegates at a Prehistoric Society conference by lecturing them on a theory that the Neolithic monument of Woodhenge had been constructed as an imitation of Stonehenge by a nouveau riche chieftain.

After returning home from the Charlottetown Conference, John A. Macdonald asked Viscount Monck, the Governor General of the Province of Canada to invite delegates from the three Maritime provinces and Newfoundland to a conference with United Canada delegates.

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Fifty delegates from 11 countries in Western Europe attended the first conference, along with 11 Americans.

If the delegates at the World Conference do approve an inspired document, it is the custom of the Church to then have a courtesy vote, which is opened to all non-delegates attending the conference.

The April 1990 conference approved sweeping political reforms, including creation of a national Senate, decentralization of the budgetary process, freedom of assembly and press, and cancellation of the exit visa requirement.

The April conference approved sweeping political reforms, including creation of a national senate, decentralization of the budgetary process, freedom of assembly and press, and cancellation of the exit visa requirement.

A national conference held in August 1991 produced a draft constitution ( approved in a referendum January 12, 1992 ), a charter for political parties, and an electoral code.

This conference approved the use of artificial birth control in limited circumstances, marking a controversial turning point in Christian views on contraception.

While the first conference was held in Geneva in 1964, the second conference in New Delhi was an opportunity for schemes to be finally approved.

This concept had been approved at the Medellín conference by Bishop Ricard Durand, president of the Commission about Poverty.

Officially approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996, the creation of the WNBA was announced at a press conference with Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes in attendance.

The Committee approved the final conference bill on July 24, 2002, and gave it the name " the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

On December 29, 1922 a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

As of 18th December 2011, the party's National Executive Committee approved a change of the party's name to Kenya Alliance for National Unity at a party conference in Naivasha

Whatever legislation, if any, the conference committee finalizes must then be approved in an unamendable " take-it-or-leave-it " manner by both chambers.

The first conference approved the Common Program, which served as the de facto Constitution for the next five years.

The conference approved the new national anthem, flag, capital city, and state name, and elected the first government of the People's Republic of China.

This was approved by a special party conference of over 1, 000 delegates at Dublin's National Concert Hall in January 1993, though there were some Labour Party TDs, who dissented from the leadership position.

The next day the annual conference of the Nationalist Party unanimously approved of the protest action by Austin Currie in Caledon.

The 2005 Congress ( conference ) of the British Trades Union Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for IWD to be designated a public holiday in the United Kingdom.

On March 2 a conference of sailor, soldier and worker organization delegates, after hearing speeches by Kuzmin and Vasiliev, President of the Kronstadt Executive Committee, arrested these two, and amid incorrect rumors of immediate attack approved formation of a Provisional Revolutionary Committee.

The conference approved plans to set up the new organization in 1934, with headquarters in New York and European offices in Berlin, Germany.

These priesthood calls are approved after review by a Mission Center President and vote of a congregational conference.

The conference report, in order to become binding, must be approved by both the House and Senate.

In Canada, an adapted form of the NRSV was approved in 2008 by the Canadian conference and the Vatican.

World Bank economist Nicéphore Soglo, chosen as prime minister by the conference, took office in March, and a new constitution was approved in a December 1990 referendum.

At its conference on 28 July 2005, the Labour Party approved a platform for the election due in 2006.