Sentences with convoke
con·voke
C c - Unrest forced the military to convoke the Congress elected in 1980 and allow it to choose a new chief executive.
- This is what happened when the government gave in to the armed forces' demand to convoke a special meeting of the National Security Council.
- There is a serious proposal to convoke, under EU auspices, something like a European version of the Philadelphia convention of 1787.
- On June 15 the organization convoked a meeting to which it invited ‘all those who feel concerned about the future of communism.
- In describing them, Tanner sets the context in which they were convoked and, in passing, describes and defines the nomenclature used in conciliar deliberations.
- This is why King Oswy chaired and arbitrated the discussions in Whitby, just as continental rulers habitually convoked and presided over ecclesiastical councils.
- The bishops met in the synods that were convoked from the second century onwards.
- On 23 December 800 Charles convoked a council of prelates and nobles.
- Between them, Henry and Wolsey bludgeoned the pope into granting Wolsey the rank of legate a latere for life, which meant that he became the superior ecclesiastical authority in England, and could convoke legatine synods.
- The Assembly voted to suspend the monarchy and convoke a new body elected by manhood suffrage, the Convention, to draw up a republican constitution for the country.
- Less than a hundred days into his pontificate, the new Pope John XXIII startled most of the world by announcing his intention to convoke an ecumenical council.