In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".
In a conventional optical system, light rays enter through a lens and converge at a point to form an image.
Around this time, budding curiosity about the President's private life started to converge with a more serious threat to his image.
Europe and Turkey need each other and can help each other, but the relationship must start from a candid assessment that we are unlikely ever to converge culturally, politically or economically enough for a full marriage to work.
Instead, the central bank, which has already cut rates twice in recent weeks, still has to lower them by about half a point by January to converge with the rates of the other euro countries.
Or is it some magic compromise time between all of those, where a number of factors converge to make the perfect time to buy an airplane ticket?
Police regularly stage anti-terrorism drills in which dozens of officers from all over the city are directed to converge quickly on a central spot, a practice run to minimize confusion if they need to swarm into an area during a real attack.
Named "Mountain Lion, " the new version of OS X is the clearest sign yet of Apple's belief that the mobile, laptop and desktop world are destined to converge and that Apple wants to be a catalyst.
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Bathos and rage, ambition and frustration, and forbidden lust (filmed with a post-pornographic precision) converge in a sort of furious and less than fond farewell to himself.
After being ignited, the petals rose on long stems to converge and form a cauldron signifying unity and peace.
This is the UK's largest permanent street art project and the biggest urban arts festival in Europe, attracting the world's leading urban artists to converge and create a series of temporary and permanent street art installations and sculpture, including some of the world's largest scale outdoor paintings.
The worlds of video games and Hollywood continue to converge with transmedia being a key buzz word in Hollywood today.
For 42 days starting on January 9th, the alignment of the stars makes Allahabad, where the Ganges, the Yamuna and a mythical third river converge, an especially holy place to be.
More important, large pools of enthusiasts started to converge into something that was truly a Worldwide web.
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In continuation to the activities organized to pay due credit to the teachers, UNESCO also organized a Walk where a large number of students and teachers were present to converge government's focus towards betterment of teacher's status.
Just as trade caused global commodity prices to converge, so mass migration resulted in a convergence of wage levels.
Two curiously named recipients of fervent online buzz converge on a single stage Friday: Click the link above to hear Black Kids and Does It Offend You, Yeah? perform at WXPN and World Cafe Live.
In fact, two different sources of data ( a survey of scientists and a study linking agreement to the credibility of the expert) converge on the same fact: 97 to 98 percent of climate scientists are convinced by the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.
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Ubuntu uniquely gives handset OEMs and mobile operators the ability to converge phone, PC and thin client into a single enterprise superphone.
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By the last few chapters it is careering along at a spanking clip, until, finally, its various elements converge in a magnificent set-piece and the whole thing comes to rest on a dime.
Mr Toledo is going ahead with a protest demonstration on July 26th, in which marchers will converge on Lima to try to stop Mr Fujimori's re-inauguration.
Merck's work on Alzheimer's comes at a time when the research efforts of universities and private labs are beginning to converge.
Some 100 balloonists, including a slew who man special-shaped airships like dragons and bald eagles, converge on the region's parks and airports to launch against a backdrop of mountains awash in fall foliage.
One area where mobile and cloud computing converge is augmented reality, which allows computer-generated content to be superimposed over a live camera view of the real world.
Or will all four waves converge like a tidal bore of data, empowering CMOs with a more complete picture of the path to purchase from intent to transaction, and from the top of funnel to the bottom?
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With this era of Labour waning and a tight election in prospect by 2011, the politics of the Labour and Conservative Parties are beginning to converge on what is perceived to be the winning ground.
Tablets, similarly, are beginning to converge on features, size and form factors, although the tablet category lags smartphones by a couple years.
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Testing a similar crystal, the scientists proved that by rotation it was possible to find the point where the two beams converge - indicating the direction of the Sun.
Even if their economies were insufficiently aligned to be best suited for a currency union, one hope has been that the euro would make them converge as they trade much more intensively with one another.
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