Sentence examples for summoned to be from inspiring English sources

Once it was interrupted; he was summoned to be a witness at a trial.

A week later, he was summoned to be screened, and it was impossible for his parents to refuse the state.

In May 1801, Ney was summoned to be presented to the First Consul at the Tuileries, where Napoleon and Joséphine had surrounded themselves with the ceremony and splendour of a court.

Ironically, the show of people power in the UK did not go unnoticed in the Islamic Republic, where the British ambassador was summoned to be told of "concern" over police brutality against students in the streets of London.

Anastasia Loika, who works for the human rights group Vyasna, said there had been lines of people outside the K.G.B. building in Minsk, all of whom had been summoned to be interrogated.

There was similar uncertainty in London, where Bear Stearns' 1,500 staff at Canary Wharf were summoned to be addressed by their own senior executives and by a visiting delegation from JP Morgan Chase.

Then a prosecutor presented Mr. Drel with a summons to be questioned as a witness.

Bosses have been summoned to Washington to be scolded on live television.

British ambassadors were summoned to London to be given a new mission to promote exports.

Bishops were summoned to Rome to be given their orders, not for fraternal consultation.

Who'd have thought the first Campbell to be summoned to The Hague would be Naomi?