The phrase "as the convocation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to an event or gathering, particularly in an academic or formal setting.
Example: "As the convocation approached, the excitement among the graduates grew palpable."
Alternatives: "as the assembly" or "as the gathering".
David Jackson, chair of the 2004 senior class convocation committee, said, "The senior class officers are excited about former President Clinton's visit to Cornell as the Convocation keynote speaker.
Recently, 18 years after that day, I read a post on Facebook that at once lauded a gathering of Gay, Black People at a Pride event (read: a celebration of ALL OF US) as the convocation of the 'most masculine... men' and pointed out an altercation that occurred as one between "fem queens".
But because the overwhelming majority of those who attended the NPA meeting had also been at the convocation, the second gathering served as a kind of follow-on to the first.
This is a matter of continuing controversy in Afghanistan, as is the convocation of the jirga itself.
Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola will install Minns today as a missionary bishop for the convocation.
He was elected in 1949 to head the congregation in Paris, formally the American Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, regarded as the mother church of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.
Jędruch, who classifies the regular general sejm session as ordinary, in addition to the convocation, election and coronation sessions, also distinguished the following additional types: Council of state Constitutional Delegation (ending with a formation of committees) Extraordinary General council (rada walna) without the king present.
"Anyone who grew up on 115th Street and Fifth is naturally going to want to come out for this," said Mr. Donaldson, who greeted old neighbors as he watched the convocation from the curb.
Although Nicephorus' religious policy was Orthodox rather than Iconoclast (e.g., he permitted the veneration of images), he exercised strong control over the church, even going so far as to sponsor the convocation of a synod (809) that declared the emperor exempt from ecclesiastical laws.
We will gather in Memorial Church for the Convocation Ceremony from 2PM-3PM with special guest Fernando Reimers, Ed.D. as our Convocation keynote speaker.
The adoption of the Constitution was preceded by a period of agitation forand gradual introduction ofreforms beginning with the Convocation Sejm of 1764 and the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the Commonwealth's last king.
