The phrase "able to convene a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability or authority to gather a group or meeting.
Example: "The committee is able to convene a meeting at any time to discuss urgent matters."
Alternatives: "capable of assembling a" or "authorized to gather a".
Ray was able to convene several meetings at which the world's best minds converged around a practical solution to the malaria problem--bed nets that would prevent the mosquito bites that spread the disease from person to person.
Under a metrics-based system, funding councils would still be able to convene expert panels to provide advice and to identify whether metrics produce perverse outcomes.
Now, it would meet regularly through the year and be better able to convene extra sessions whenever it needed to.
He is also able to convene local public service leaders to sort out problems requiring co-ordination.
At a time when Americans are reflecting on the nation's most cherished values, Davos Men and Women should be able to convene in New York to plan their new world, while ordinary men and women freely and peacefully gather to protest the meeting.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Antagonists in the Syrian conflict appeared to harden their negotiating positions on Wednesday, further dimming the possibility that the United Nations would be able to convene talks in coming weeks aimed at halting the civil war despite intensified diplomatic pressure from both the United States and Russia.
Scientists in training need to learn to take advantage of the vast and rapidly growing storehouse of existing knowledge, "either through their own skills or through tapping into the skills in partnerships or through the tools that they are able to convene," Goble says.
Is it not correct and proper that the winners of such prestigious awards be able to convene and talk about the state of peace in the world?
As John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group has noted, on several occasions after diplomats were able to convene the myriad of rebel groups in Darfur for negotiations toward peace, Khartoum's military would bomb the meeting place in an attempt to kill the parties involved, rather than negotiate.
