But with political leaders and dignitaries coming from far and wide, it is also a chance for bilateral meetings, talks and speeches.
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Parishioners could travel to these makeshift villages fromfarandwide, sleep overnight and go to church the next morning before beginning the long journey home.
Mr Myhrvold's firm is based near Seattle, but flies in scientists fromfarandwideand maintains a subsidiary in India to tap the torrent of innovation there.
Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came fromfarandwide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits.