Senior Turkish diplomats return to Ankara once a year for a grand strategic conference, and at this year's meeting, held in January, Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Amorim, was among the main speakers.

For example, the unionist Dhulbahante Tribe has come together and held a well arranged grand conference in Taleex town from December 26, 2012 and currently in its final stage to be concluded in just few days.

But in the ITV interview, Mr. Bush said he was deeply skeptical of any effort to put together a grand conference.

Administration officials said that the State Department was now trying to encourage the opposition to stage another grand conference of major dissidents, perhaps in Belgium later this month.

To the Editor: The grand, 19th-century-style European conference Flora Lewis suggests as a solution to the Bosnian civil war (Op-Ed, May 1) is problematic.

The details of this deal include the establishment of Sharia as the legal code, and holding a "grand conference" in Garowe to discuss the future of Puntland.

In connection with Prathishta of goddess Sarada, grand conferences and festivals were conducted for four consecutive days.

How to reduce the current-account deficit and the fiscal deficit call for a grand conference.

These two classic American teams from two grand conferences must settle for "the granddaddy of them all," as Michigan and U.S.C. players grew up hearing the Rose Bowl described on television.

"Larry has a long history of blowing off meetings - ranging from Nobel laureates to grand conferences of Oracle customers," the executive said.