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Recent Examples of town meeting
This is not what happens in the actual town meeting that takes place.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
With modern technology not working, the town of Black Mountain turned to a communication method that has been used for centuries: a town meeting.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
Manchester has planned street repairs on nine roads, including upgrades to the Manchester Town Hall front parking lot and the Manchester Post Office rear lot, according to town meeting documents.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
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
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
With modern technology not working, the town of Black Mountain turned to a communication method that has been used for centuries: a town meeting.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
Manchester has planned street repairs on nine roads, including upgrades to the Manchester Town Hall front parking lot and the Manchester Post Office rear lot, according to town meeting documents.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for town meeting
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Attendees can expect a mix of feature and short film screenings, panel discussions and social events around the Cultural District.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Feb. 2025
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Earlier this year, Crump and Bryant, a psychologist and NAACP leader, convened a critical panel discussion on mental health and bail reform at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, emphasizing the urgent need for systemic change in law enforcement practices.—
Delano Massey,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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The bill, which would restrict transgender women from participating in women's school athletics programs, is a key priority for conservatives and could potentially divide the Democratic caucus.—
Hans Nichols,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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The caucus said that if farmers can’t trade overseas, the US would face a potential $10 billion-plus annual economic loss, as well as significant harm to its poultry business.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
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The congregation doesn’t have a permanent home, instead renting a modest brick church along a busy road near University of the Pacific.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Feb. 2025
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The grants could be a lifeline for Black churches struggling with dwindling congregations, a lack of resources and aging infrastructures, said Jason Williams, professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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Some senior military and police officials sent to the assembly have testified that Yoon ordered them to pull out lawmakers to thwart a parliamentary vote on the decree.—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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What to Consider The assembly requires more work than other models.—
Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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Related Articles The symposium marked one of the highest-profile private sector meetings in recent years, with the last comparable event dating back to November 2018.—
Li Jun,
WWD,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Institute will host its inaugural symposium on February 6, 2025, in Houston.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Attend seminars on Texas wildlife and conservation and take your kids to the Junction for the petting zoo.—
Shafaq Patel,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Doerr provides the example, taken from the original seminar taught by Grove, in which the objective is to dominate a new sector in the microcomputer-component market, and one of the key results is to come up with ten new designs for a component.—
Cal Newport,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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But this did not go down well with some of the colloquium guests.—
Tania Roettger,
The Dial,
5 Dec. 2024
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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
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“Town meeting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/town%20meeting. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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