Sentence examples for convened to try from inspiring English sources

Parliament recently convened to try to pass a $100 billion budget but delayed any decision.

A commission was actually convened to try the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

Officially the Conservatives insist that the discussions were merely convened to try and help the two unionist parties stabilise the assembly and prevent it from falling.

Meanwhile, a committee comprising leaders of the three dominant political parties, including the Maoists, has been convened to try to broker a deal.

The Supreme Court, which heard a challenge to the military tribunal convened to try the men, said that made no difference.

A meagre forty-four pages related to allegations of torture and abuse of Filipinos by U.S. soldiers; almost four hundred pages were devoted to records of military tribunals convened to try Filipinos for "cruelties" against their countrymen.

On the other hand, this week, the New York Federal Reserve began to convene meetings to try to create transparency and liquidity in the global market for credit default swaps.

Many Americans have heard of the military commission that convened in 1942 to try eight German saboteurs.

During the recession, late in 2008, Dominic Berg, then the chairman of Community Board 3, convened a committee to try to reach a consensus.

In November, 2004, thirty minutes after a military commission convened at Guantánamo Bay to try Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, news came that halted the proceedings: Hamdan had won a lawsuit, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, brought on his behalf by a diverse group of lawyers.

Former Vice President Al Gore and 40 entrepreneurs and CEOs in the food industry recently convened in London to try to answer just that.