Sentence examples for cannot convene from inspiring English sources

In that respect it is very much like the government's bid to complete a national election, without which it cannot convene parliament and stay in power.

A formal conference committee cannot be convened until the House and the Senate vote to convene it.

Now that Europe is Christian a general Council cannot be convened or its decisions enforced except by the Christian lay ruler (pp. 287 98/376 90).

"The decision of the convening authority cannot be changed," Hagel wrote in response to a letter from Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif).

But abortion providers say that in Texas, where they face tougher restrictions seemingly every time lawmakers convene in Austin, they cannot afford not to play by the rules.

The disarmament of the militias and the convening of a National Reconciliation Conference cannot be postponed and need to take place through a process which has both popular legitimacy and a multilateral dimension.

If the governor needs immediate authorization from the Legislature to cope with an emergency and lawmakers cannot get to the Capitol in Albany, the Assembly and Senate could convene electronically.

Irked entrepreneurs cite what they see as archaic restraints on their management freedom; an Israeli public company sometimes cannot buy another business or give new employees stock options without convening a shareholders meeting, they complain.

Correspondents say the government blames the delayed payments on the protesters, as it cannot borrow money to make the payments until a new parliament has convened.

On race, the administration cannot erase the distaste for affirmative action that dominates the Supreme Court; so it convenes a dialogue on the subject, hoping, as Mr Clinton said on December 3rd, that its effects will "spread across America like ripples from a pebble in a pond".

The assembly -- convened under emergency measures to choose a transitional two-year administration -- cannot make decisions on constitutional matters like the restoration of the monarchy.