Sentence examples for convene an assembly from inspiring English sources

Congress also agreed to convene an assembly next July to rewrite the Constitution and to schedule a referendum that would give Bolivia's far-flung regions more autonomy.

Chagrined, the opposition say they will go ahead and convene an assembly anyway.American officials defend the decision to bypass the opposition on several grounds.

The protesters, largely supporters of President Rafael Correa, a leftist economist, had gathered to criticize an effort by lawmakers to raise their own salaries and to show support for a plan by Mr. Correa to convene an assembly to rewrite parts of the Constitution.

Although Louis XVI accepted Calonne's proposal to convene an Assembly of Notables, chosen from the country's elites, and to seek their endorsement for a comprehensive reform program, the monarchy had already frittered away the prestige and authority that might have allowed this gamble to succeed.

At the high school today, officials convened an assembly to inform the 450 students, who live in Westchester and the Bronx, of the arrest.

In 1807, Napoleon convened an assembly of rabbinic authorities to address the question of whether Jewish law prevented Jews from being loyal citizens of the republic.

Still, Mr. Valenzuela convened an assembly this spring to tell sixth graders, many of them the children of truckers and distributors in the tomato industry, that their homework today is critical to their AIMS performance.

The outcome, better than any of the opposition's most optimistic forecasts, gives the coalition an unprecedented strength in trying to rein in Maduro as well as the votes needed to sack supreme court justices and even remove Maduro from office by convening an assembly to rewrite Hugo Chávez's 1999 constitution.

In January 1960, the ALC convened an assembly, calling for support of the Cuban Revolution, while also declaring opposition to totalitarianism and dictatorships.

Parliamentary officials said they would go ahead with a meeting on May 31 to decide whether to convene an impeachment assembly.

The UN had the foresight to convene a "world assembly on ageing" back in 1982, but that came and went.