Sentence examples for For convocation from inspiring English sources

This site belongs to the middle Yangshao Period and was used for convocation, worshiping and religious ceremonies by tribes or tribe allies over 5000 years ago.

In May 1536 Pope Paul published a bull of convocation for his proposed council to be held in Mantua.

By order of the Russian emperor Nicholas II, Muravyov also called for the convocation of a disarmament conference (Jan.

William Julius Wilson, the Harvard sociologist, gave the keynote address yesterday for the convocation celebrating the center's new home.

A pro-imperial cardinal, Napoleone Orsini, began secret negotiations with the Emperor for the convocation of an ecumenical council to judge John.

He also sought to gain the support of public opinion in the German Confederation by introducing a motion in the federal Diet for the convocation of a national parliament elected by equal manhood suffrage.

Not 12 months before the bust, Columbia's students gave Truman, the vice president and heir apparent to the university's presidency, a standing ovation for a convocation address in which he compared his generation, the World War II generation, with theirs, the Vietnam generation.

I know that it will sound cliche for a convocation speaker to state that this particular group of graduates -- the class of fill-in-the-blank -- is at a crossroads.

The only things we see and hear from you are diplomatic circumlocutions of no importance, which merely prepare the way for the convocation of the EU - Turkey Council of Association.

He was negotiating with Shariatmadari for some kind of convocation where the majority could prevail.

They had mortgaged their house, they were due to come to England in September for his ceremony of convocation.