Sentence examples for convocation it from inspiring English sources

Less than seven weeks before its convocation, it has at last deigned to announce a provisional date for its biggest formal gathering in five years.

"I was that student taking 21 credits every semester and I was recognized as the most outstanding of the graduating students in 2012 at the Hispanic convocation and it was kind of like a very bittersweet moment for me, because at that moment I still didn't have a Social Security number".

For Brazil, it will be a convocation under its new coach, Mano Menezes, who replaced Dunga after a disappointing quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands.

The late Herb Caen in his San Francisco Chronicle column called it "a convocation of ghosts" and worried that there would one day "be no survivors to remind us of the time a blazing city became a shining hour".

Box 2. Voices from the Convocation Question: What does it mean to "think evolutionarily" and why is this important?

Now in its 16th year, it's a convocation as much as a showcase, besotted with history and succession, scrupulous in its veneration of elders.

Another piece of news that's less funny than it seems: a convocation of clerics in Indonesia came close to forbidding yoga, but ended up saying that Muslims could keep it up as long as they skipped the mantras and chants.

There were certainly moments that I found more offensive than Romney's unintentionally hilarious creation of a new collective noun ("a binder of women" – like, you know, a convocation of eagles), even though it edged right up to the margins of implying actual physical harm.

It was the senior convocation on Saturday, not the commencement on Sunday.

"I told him to listen carefully to the convocation speech, because my daughter wrote it," she said.

For some reason Queen Elizabeth never officially authorized the work, but sanction for its public use came from the Convocation (church synod or assembly) of 1571 and it thereby became in effect the second authorized version.