There was a prolonged process of preparation before the conference convened.

The conference will convene on Friday afternoon as planned.

The conference convened in November 1986 and was initially to end the following spring.

(Just last year, the conference convened six times, one meeting short of 2001 and 2003.)

Once inside, the Americans were ushered to the great chamber where the conference would convene.

I wanted to talk with Kathandrion before our conference convened.

The conference will convene the middle of this month.

The international conference of donors will convene in Brussels on Friday.

The second phase will not be spelled out until after a 12-nation conference on monetary union convenes in Rome next month and begins discussing it.

Parental conferences convene every six weeks, with biweekly telephone contact.