noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conference centre
▪ Westgate Hotel has sixty bedrooms and a conference centre.
a party conference
▪ He will give a speech at the Tory party conference this morning.
a peace conference
▪ Will the US be sending a delegate to the Middle East peace conference?
address a meeting/conference etc
▪ He addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
annual report/meeting/conference
conference call
held...press conference
▪ The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
news conference
▪ The chairman told a news conference that some members of staff would lose their jobs.
press conference
▪ The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ His announcement at the annual conference of the Association of Children's Reporters in Peebles received an immediate welcome from childcare agencies.
▪ An annual black communications conference was instituted to debate issues and encourage black recruitment by the networks and major publications.
▪ Waldegrave threw out the challenge to the physics community last week at the annual conference of the Institute of Physics in Brighton.
▪ Gabbidon is calling for directors to support an annual or biennial conference for these women and staff.
▪ Agriculture Department said Friday at its annual outlook conference.
▪ The Institute of Water and Environmental Management will be holding its annual conference concurrently.
▪ Friday's announcement came at the association's annual conference in Orlando, Fla.
conservative
▪ More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.
▪ As I said at the Conservative party conference, I want to make it clear that our policy is colour blind.
▪ The Prime Minister and other ministers are expected to attend a Conservative conference in Cheltenham next spring.
▪ For instance, the Home Secretary is regularly criticised for leniency on such issues from this lobby at the Conservative Party conferences.
▪ They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest.
▪ Mr Parkinson is to defend the Government's stand at the Conservative Party conference next week.
▪ For the first time there will be a creche for children of representatives at the Conservative conference.
▪ Last week at the Conservative conference Mr Howard said prison life should not be a picnic.
international
▪ Michael made a good recovery, and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement.
▪ Lawyers, politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace.
▪ In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences.
▪ It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference.
▪ His proposals also called for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
▪ Active planning and discussion of an international conference occupied the early months of 1944.
▪ In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful.
joint
▪ Joint concluding press conference At their joint concluding press conference on June 3 the two leaders pronounced their summit a success.
▪ On June 3 they held a joint news conference.
▪ It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.
▪ They should have held a joint conference.
labour
▪ Some things never change at a Labour conference.
▪ It is rather like a Labour Party conference, without the block vote.
▪ Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool.
▪ They've lobbied every Labour conference since 84.
▪ Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media's industry hacks at the Labour party conference.
▪ Who cast a shadow over the Labour conference by quitting the Shadow Cabinet? 2.
▪ They were at the Labour Party conference together last year and that's when it began.
national
▪ At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors; she had ten children.
▪ Tshisekedi had refused to accept ministers from outside the national conference.
▪ The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion.
▪ They advocated an immediate end to military rule and the holding of a national conference of all political forces.
▪ Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first.
▪ The national conference will bring together chairmen and chief executives of business partnerships, City Challenges and TECs.
▪ The reforms will have to be passed by the national conference where they will face considerable opposition.
▪ Any appointments made by Tshisekedi would need to be ratified by the national conference.
recent
▪ Much of the discussion at recent conferences has been on the recession and how hard it is hitting the industry.
▪ The awards were given during a recent engineers' conference.
tory
▪ Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Tory conference speech had little impact.
▪ Less than 2 weeks ago, Mr Heseltine had the party faithful squirming with delight at the Tory Party conference.
▪ Their warnings came amid bleak forecasts that sterling will plunge to a new low during this week's Tory conference at Brighton.
▪ And they clearly hope to get them down further before the Tory conference next month.
▪ A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers.
▪ Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference.
▪ The strong integrationist call dominates two-thirds of the 37 resolutions on Northern Ireland affairs submitted for next month's Tory conference.
■ NOUN
call
▪ Voters expecting to meet him were asked instead to watch a video and listen to a telephone conference call.
▪ The next afternoon at three, the conference call goes through.
▪ Participants in the conference call included Gingrich, other Republican leaders, and one of his lawyers, former Rep.
▪ Public disclosure of the conference call has sparked a political firestorm.
▪ The Times published excerpts from the conference call on Friday.
▪ Video links were set up in Tucson and Phoenix for family therapy conference calls.
▪ The conference call has been rearranged for later in the week.
▪ A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.
case
▪ It should be noted, however, that this case was decided when parental attendance at case conferences was rare.
▪ He is also concerned about the low take-up of conducting case conferences by telephone.
▪ A case conference should consider what will happen in the future if violence occurs.
▪ However, case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making.
▪ A special case conference was held in 1986 because he was not thriving as he should have done.
▪ No multi-disciplinary case conferences were held prior to these children being taken from their homes.
▪ The resident should be advised of the reasons for the case conference and the result.
centre
▪ Meanwhile, Unix System Labs has negotiated a Unix showcase area squat at the front door of the conference centre.
▪ But the playroom is to be absorbed into the retreat and conference centre next year.
▪ Ideally situated close to the town and conference centre, on the Brighton border and just off the seafront.
▪ Around the conference centre, the party rocks on with blithe disregard for the economic and political turbulence beyond.
▪ The conference centre contained one of the main entrances to the bunker.
▪ Size of conference centre 194 points 4.
▪ Located in a perfect position close to the seafront, entertainment, town centre and conference centre.
▪ They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre.
facility
▪ We carried out a survey to determine how buyers of conference facilities selected venues.
▪ With conference facilities to cater up to 300 people.
▪ Of the local hotels 11 have conference facilities.
▪ It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income.
▪ It is a two storey structure which contains conference facilities and computer facilities for the University as a whole.
▪ The Leofric is also marketing its conference facilities aggressively.
hall
▪ He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand.
▪ A conference hall for the under elevens.
▪ Their debate on Labour's plight rages far above the brawling oratory in the conference hall.
▪ Unfettered loyalty inside the conference hall.
▪ Anyway, at last night's show in a Wembley conference hall, there was only one contestant.
▪ Heartened by this exchange, Joshua re-entered the conference hall just as Norman Tebbit was getting to his feet.
▪ A programme is not just what happens in the conference hall.
news
▪ Fujimori and Montesinos held what turned out to be a fateful news conference on August 21.
▪ Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, in a taped statement broadcast at the news conference.
▪ She later closed the news conference with a song she made up.
▪ At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
▪ On June 3 they held a joint news conference.
▪ D., said at a news conference also attended by Sens.
▪ The news conference in the state building was arranged by Sen.
peace
▪ This first session dealt mainly with co-operation between the two countries at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference.
▪ It was hoped that a formal accord would be signed at a national multiparty peace conference on Sept. 14.
▪ The peace conference in Madrid seems to me to subsume all past resolutions.
▪ In his view peace conferences were a waste of time; the old elm had outlived its usefulness.
▪ Because of international insistence on it, Resolution 242 is undoubtedly the entry ticket to an international peace conference.
▪ During his visits Baker attempted, unsuccessfully, to arrange a regional Middle East peace conference.
▪ And he could gain much at a peace conference, without having to fight for it.
press
▪ Not even glasnost and all its press conferences could change that.
▪ Its cameras followed the candidates around on the campaign, showing unabridged speeches, press conferences, walkabouts.
▪ There is no better example of journalism as part of the show than the press conference.
▪ After Clarke was sentenced, Jonathan's family held a press conference, begging others to stay away from drugs.
▪ A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.
▪ It was seventeen hours later, on Wednesday morning, that Landless held his own press conference.
▪ One difference: He disclosed those deals loudly, in very public press conferences.
room
▪ They get summoned into the conference room.
▪ Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.
▪ Behind the elegant partitions, leading to our private conference rooms, something roars.
▪ For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.
▪ It has a wide variety of rooms and ten well appointed conference rooms.
▪ The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room.
▪ Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms.
▪ The massage takes place in conference rooms, where employees relax in massage chairs.
table
▪ The Doctor was hovering above the conference table in the classic lotus position.
▪ They sit at conference tables and discuss them in a civilised manner.
▪ The room has corporate gray carpeting and a conference table.
▪ A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants, stood between the tall windows.
▪ That is, unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table.
▪ The weekly meeting was held in his office at the conference table set in front of the south window.
▪ But did they talk headily around the conference table?
■ VERB
address
▪ These are some of the questions to be addressed at the conference.
▪ He is not down to address the conference at all.
attend
▪ Yesterday I attended a conference for the Edmonton Clergy on Marriage.
▪ And inside, his biography, copies of which were distributed to the media attending the news conference.
▪ This was what they attended conference for, or at least why they bothered to turn up for the speeches.
▪ He used to attend teacher conferences.
▪ He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference, four days of gin and oratory.
▪ George Bell, retired, fatigued, soon to die, attended the conference against the advice of his doctor.
▪ On April 7 Modai attended the inaugural conference of his new party, the New Liberals.
hold
▪ In 1830, the National Association held its first conference.
▪ And why do they hold news conferences but never tell the public anything?
▪ You may hold or attend press conferences to announce news or show a product range.
▪ Prescott could have done something easy, like hold a new conference or issue a press release.
▪ Establish a Cabinet committee on health promotion. Hold a conference with voluntary organisations on implementing the 1993 community care programme.
▪ No one held a news conference to tout this one, and days passed before anyone caught wind of it.
▪ Last week, the big three held a press conference, vowing eternal friendship and no further comment.
▪ A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.
speak
▪ He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference.
▪ Ellsworth, based in Los Angeles, spoke at the conference.
▪ Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux is billed to speak at two conference fringe meetings.
▪ He was speaking at a conference which follows three months of public consultation on changes to the telecommunications laws.
▪ Mr Mugabe did not speak at the conference.
▪ She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside.
▪ I spoke at the press conference to launch this booklet.
▪ The original plan did not envisage a commercial use, he told Reuter after speaking at the conference.
tell
▪ It is not sufficient to tell the conference that there will be no return to mass picketing.
▪ On July 3 he told the conference that individual and group rights were inseparable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
summon a meeting/conference etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Baxter was in Boston attending a conference on the environment.
▪ Didn't you give a talk at the conference last year?
▪ Lewis recently spoke at a conference of women business leaders.
▪ Representatives from over 100 countries attended the International Peace Conference.
▪ She's an organizer of the International Conference on AIDS that the university has every year.
▪ Texas A&M won the Southwest Conference title last week with a 65-6 victory over SMU.
▪ The Institute of Accountants is holding its conference in Edinburgh this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides Stanford, whom the Ducks have yet to play, Washington is the toughest opponent in the conference.
▪ Do they come to the conference?
▪ In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
▪ James Brady is just one of hundreds of experts and survivors at a top level conference on brain injuries.
▪ The alliance, unveiled at a Windows hardware conference in San Jose, marks the entry of Dolby into the computer arena.
▪ We know this because White practically calls a news conference every day to relate those facts.