The phrase "did not convene" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a meeting or assembly that did not take place, or a group that did not come together as planned. Example: The committee did not convene due to conflicting schedules of its members.
The United Nations did not convene the Security Council to censure the Arab countries.
Andropov wanted Gorbachev to succeed him and added a paragraph to this effect to his report to a Central Committee plenum that did not convene until after his death on February 9 , 1984
In a sign that no retaliation was imminent, Mr. Sharon did not convene his security cabinet in the hours after the bombing, consulting instead by phone with Defense Minister Benjamin Benjaminzer.
Unable to reach an agreement with Republicans, Democrats did not convene the Senate until 5 p.m. so their two presidential candidates — Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois — could return from the campaign trail.
The PC did not convene in person, but instead received documents by email (circulated by the PM).
Unlike Schwarzenegger, Brown did not convene blue-ribbon panels to recommend ways to overhaul California's finances — ideas that mostly went nowhere.
The global community of terrorism witnesses didn't convene such a vast online assembly two weeks ago, when suicide bombers, widely believed to be members of ISIS, killed as many as forty-three people and wounded more than a hundred in Beirut.
(I read later that this affair went on for hours; one person tweeted that they didn't convene until close to 1 30am!
One is he didn't convene the gathering and two, it wasn't his idea to run what is looking like a vibrant charity meeting.
If the lawmakers do not convene the session again soon, she said, "we will go to the court and ask them to dissolve Parliament".
The 112th Congress does not convene until January, but the Nov. 2 elections could have an immediate impact on the makeup of the Senate and influence the lame-duck session of Congress.
