Sentence examples for council summoned from inspiring English sources

The council summoned all the citizens to walk up from the agora to the hill opposite the Acropolis called the Pnyx.

He skillfully persuaded Nicholas's delegates to a council summoned at Constantinople to investigate the matter that he was the lawful patriarch despite the persisting claims of the rival Ignatian faction.

The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512 17), was convoked by Pope Julius II in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the Pope.

The creed, prescribed in 380, was again defined at the beginning of 381 and ecclesiastically sanctioned, as it were, by a church council summoned to Constantinople by Theodosius in the summer of 381.

In the Athens of the 5th and 4th centuries bc, the prytaneis, a committee of the Boule (council), summoned the Ecclesia both for regular meetings, held four times in each 10th of the year, and for special sessions.

The Council summoned Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the special representative of Secretary General Kofi Annan, and informed him of their plan to send a delegation to New York for a special United Nations session on Iraq on July 22.

The local council was summoned and it was painted over.

The first two of these, together with the constitution on the sacred liturgy, proclaimed in 1963, represent the essence of the "aggironamento" for which this Council was summoned and may be regarded as its real and substantial achievements so far.

Rumors about General Younes and intertribal tensions started picking up here in the rebels' de facto capital early Thursday evening with reports that a group of four judges working for the rebel council had summoned General Younes for questioning.

Immediately upon his election he announced his intention to hold a council and summoned the papal ambassadors Girolamo Aleandro and Pietro Paolo Vergerio from Venice and Vienna, respectively, for consultation about the dangerous state of the church in the north.

The row came to national attention in November when council contractors summoned people out of bed to move their cars and police detained protesters as eight trees were chopped down in Hallam.