Sentence examples for convocation a from inspiring English sources

"When I first encountered Gene at a Province 1 convocation a couple of years ago he put his hands on me inappropriately every time I engaged him in conversation," the message said.

In 1717 he published The Convocation, a poem about a religious dispute known as the Bangorian controversy, and in 1718 Love in a Veil (published 1719), a comedy adapted from the Spanish of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was produced at Drury Lane.

Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock," Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun": those songs, heard during the opening concert of the 23rd New York Cabaret Convention on Wednesday at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, gave this annual convocation a reviving shot of adrenaline.

Yale officials had hoped that the President might accept an invitation to speak at the university's tercentennial Alumni Leadership Convocation, a weekend of lectures, panel discussions, and parties, to be attended by a thousand or so of the school's most prominent graduates.

The Chancellor is elected by the members of Convocation, a body comprising all graduates of the university, and holds office until death.

Those students who earn all A's for two or more consecutive terms in a calendar year are recognized as James B. Angell Scholars and are invited to attend the annual Honors Convocation, an event which recognizes undergraduate students with distinguished academic achievements.

Squeezing Banyan in for an interview in his Kathmandu office on June 9th, he is about to head off to grace a convocation at a medical college.

I think it's exciting that school's out for summer, but the last day of school doesn't always warrant a convocation and a class speaker.

Surely even a lame duck like me shouldn't go on categorizing and castigating while delighted by the dappled plumage of their numbers: a host of sparrows, a convocation of eagles, a cast of hawks, a charm of finches.

But then the whole truth came out: Mandatory attendance at three convocations a year is a long-standing practice; Liberty wasn't giving Cruz special (or at least unique) treatment.

There, orchid show attendance grew from 30,000 to 100,000 last year, transforming the gathering from a local convocation to a world event that attracted thousands of foreign tourists.