religious convention

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Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2011

Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted down the resolution after many a delegate had argued that Labor was not a proper concern of a religious convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

There we had a religious convention and an elopement last week.

From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

He was returning from a long and dreary religious convention held in an eastern town, where one, Mr. Lyman Beecher, had stirred up against him the foremost divines of New York and Boston.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily

She was delivering an address at a religious convention when a tempest suddenly broke with din of thunder and flare of lightning.

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