For instance, the Committee organizes welcome events at the beginning of the semester.

"Parenting," she says, "is not a welcome event in the academy."

The brief flash of an eye, a quick smile, a touch in passing, those were welcome events between us every day long.

He'd been an agent long enough to know what a welcome event a case like this was.

I was at one of the welcome events.

Both are welcome events, even to those who think they know Barcelona.

All of which makes the National Academy show a welcome event.

The launching is a welcome event for the satellite industry, which has recently found it more difficult to put satellites into space.

Interest rate cuts are always welcome events for equities.

In other words, it's a welcome and pleasurable event, but not a major one.