Sentence examples for to convoke a from inspiring English sources

"The first big decision of this pope really is that, to convoke a governing board.

RIO DE JANEIRO — First she wanted to convoke a constitutional assembly, then she favored holding a plebiscite.

They insist that Mr Zelaya violated the constitution by trying to convoke a constituent assembly which they fear might have prolonged his term.

In December 1862, Lassalle was asked by the executive committee of the "Central Committee to Convoke a General Congress of German Workers" to write a program for the congress.

"With a view to providing a greater period of time so that a greater number of train manufacturers take part, and to ensure the absolute clarity, legitimacy and transparency, the federal government decided to convoke a new bidding process," the communications and transport agency's press release on the decision said.

The nonbinding referendum was to ask voters if they wanted a vote during the November presidential election on whether to convoke an assembly to rewrite the constitution.

Fernandez has a working majority in both houses of Congress, but would need two-thirds' congressional support to convoke an elected constitutional assembly.

But the opposition, a Latin American diplomat said, "has not demonstrated a capacity to convoke mass protests on a sustained, national level" and "found Fujimori's decision to call new elections so unexpected that it is still searching for a coherent response" to the new situation.

In 1095, for example, Urban II was in a position strong enough to convoke two important ecclesiastical councils, despite meeting resistance from Henry IV, the German emperor, who opposed papal reform policies.

The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.

When Benedict afterward attempted to reclaim the papacy and depose Gregory, the Holy Roman emperor Henry III directed Gregory to convoke the Synod of Sutri (December 1046), which deposed both Sylvester who had attempted to reclaim the papacy against Benedict's apparent unsuitability and Gregory.