Sentence examples for convocation on from inspiring English sources

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

He took the next flight home, and the next day appeared with President Bush at a convocation on campus.

A picture caption in the Evening Hours column last Sunday about Yeshiva University's Hanukkah dinner and convocation on Dec. 12 misidentified the man shown with David S. Gottesman.

There was a gospel concert on Saturday night & a convocation on Sunday afternoon & the unifying idea of each was the education & moral development of children--one of Dr. King's abiding concerns.

EVENING HOURS Correction: December 26 , 2004 Sunday A picture caption in the Evening Hours column last Sunday about Yeshiva University's Hanukkah dinner and convocation on Dec. 12 misidentified the man shown with David S. Gottesman.

Speaking at a diocesan convocation on public policy here, Cardinal Dolan, who is the archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said, "We are called to be very active, very informed and very involved in politics".

The festival began on March 27 with a convocation centering on different forms of devotion and songs from the church's Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble gospel choir.

Clement VII died on 25 September before learning of the denial of papal authority on 31 March by the Convocation of Canterbury.

An even more crowded convocation occurs on Sunday, in tribute to the venerable Jim Hall.

If Mr. Bush wants to give a convocation address on a campus where he is certain to be welcomed with a tidal wave of approval, he might consider Kabul.

This essay is adapted from President Cornwell's Convocation address on Aug. 27, 2013.