Sentence examples for great convocation from inspiring English sources

The thousands upon thousands of people who attended the festival, especially in its later stages, attracted hordes of itinerant food-and-drink venders, mountebanks, acrobats, and prostitutes — all the hangers-on that normally follow any great convocation.

He declared that the scene before him gave hope in American democracy: "For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government — the government of the greatest nation on earth".

Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and the former non-executive chairman of that great capitalist success story Northern Rock, gets to make the plenary speech at this convocation of anti-Cassandras.

Shostakovich missed the Party convocation.

Convocation, his mount, was unharmed.

A pall descended on Sunday's convocation.

Convocation fell instantly, flinging Dominguez hard to the track.

A fantastic convocation of pitchers meets in cabal.

Convocation Of, Dead Meadow, Rye Coalition and Emily's Bat Mitzvah.

The House of God Church has a major convocation in Nashville every June.

You may have heard of freshman convocation – the traditional formal ceremony that kicks off a college career – but what about sophomore convocation?