Sentence examples for term convenes from inspiring English sources

Justice Stevens, the longest-serving member of the present court and the de facto leader of its liberal block, said he hoped his successor would be confirmed by the time the new term convenes in the autumn.

The General Synod — elected for a five-year term and convening for four or five days every February and July — passes a motion.

So I think highlighting some of the problems with the debt, continuing to focus on what we can do with the longer term problems, convening people together, all of those are very positive things.

Horvitz recently helped create a standing committee of interdisciplinary researchers who serve rotating terms, to convene study panels that will produce a major report every 5 years.

Intended to be an elder statesman of stature, the president is chosen for a five-year term by a specially convened assembly.

The captains convened, terms were reached, and the two sides walked off the course as co-champions.

But on Wednesday, the last day the court convened for this term, crowds erupted in cheers just after 10 a.m. as the court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.

To the court, the more persuasive precedent was Ex parte Quirin, in which the court recognized its duty to enforce relevant Constitutional protections by convening a special Term and expediting review of a trial by military convention.

He modeled it after a forum he helped Mr. Clinton convene during his second term.

The new senator took his seat when Congress convened in December 1857 (the term of his predecessor, James C. Jones, had expired in March).

Stand-alone chairmen could focus more on long-term issues, such as convening a version of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference for the post-cold-war, Internet age.