Sentence examples for summoned the first from inspiring English sources

He also summoned the first intercolonial congress in North America, which met in New York (May 1 , 1690 to plan concerted action against the French and Indians.

Prompted by Hosius, Constantine then summoned the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), where Hosius was influential in securing the inclusion in the Nicene Creed of the key word homoousios (see homoousian).

In February 1635, however, he summoned the first assembly to meet, and in the following years the proprietor in England, acting through Governor Calvert, and the colonial assembly struggled for the power to initiate legislation.

Concerned with reform of the church, he called on St. Boniface for help and in 742 summoned the first Frankish council in nearly 50 years; in 743 the Synod of Estinnes regulated the problem of church lands seized by Charles Martel and granted out to his vassals.

In 381 Emperor Theodosius I summoned the second ecumenical council, the first Council of Constantinople, which produced a creed that also contained the word homoousios and became the definitive statement of orthodox belief.

Finally the Protestant church at Paris was commissioned to summon the first synod, which was attended by 72 deputies representing all the provinces of the kingdom (May 1559).

This game would be tight with its fate undecided, the crowd increasingly edgy and irritated at the hosts' shortcomings, when he would summon the fourth official and make the substitution that would transform the afternoon.

Mr. Duvenage summoned the police that first weekend.

Mr. Kohl has been summoned as the first witness, and it is believed that he will ultimately have to reveal the names of the secret donors.

In January, more than a thousand potential jurors were summoned for the first stage, in which they each filled out a 28-page, 100-question form.

(Agence France-Presse) EUROPE GERMANY: KOHL TO TESTIFY Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl was summoned as the first witness by a parliamentary committee investigating his use of secret funds channeled to his Christian Democratic Party.