Sentence examples for convened an assembly from inspiring English sources

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.

So, discovering the Mamertines at the harbour, he convened an assembly and talked to them, finally persuading them to send for Hanno; for the latter had already become suspicious of their movements and had established himself on the citadel, which he was guarding.

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

In 1970, approximately two years after the Kerner Report, was issued, The Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois convened an Assembly to assess what progress had been made on those recommendations.

The grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada convenes an assembly at Sevilla to codify the conduct and jurisdiction of inquisitors.

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.

Instead, Mr. Baduel suggests convening an assembly to rewrite Venezuela's Constitution as a step toward reintroducing checks on Mr. Chávez's power.

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 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.