Well, summon your sinews and make a final effort: Alexander Watson's Ring of Steel is perhaps the most important of the current crop of books – and certainly one of the best.
Both sides may well summon the spirit and words of Barry Goldwater, who cautioned against allowing faith-based extremism to gain control of the Republican Party.
"I made a sort of haunted house, and I said to the other kids, 'Come on, come see my haunted house!'" He might as well have summoned the devil, such was the abject terror the light-show produced in his peers.
He told the BBC last week that the firm's former chief executive, Philip Clarke, could well be summoned to appear before his committee over the issue.
The one thing I'd point out that the hallmark of the Bush EPA was how well they summoned the will to never summon their will to do anything.
(More ways to accurately judge the boyband – how well they summon up enthusiasm for everything they do in public, which to some extent these days is a lot of their lives. McFly are a throbbing five stars in this area).
We, as Christians, would do well to summon any Christian leader to a higher heart standard.
Which is why he keeps getting so much work....Dale never lets you down, always (well, usually) summoning up a pitch-perfect accent, too.
The venue for the GoCardless Christmas party had to be accessible, and one of London's iconic (and wheelchair-friendly) black taxis would need to be summoned well ahead of time.
The trial is colloquially dubbed Vatileaks II by the media – an earlier Vatileaks trial took place in 2012 under the papacy of Benedict XVI, ending with the conviction, and subsequent papal pardon, of the pope's own personal butler – and it will see some well-known figures summoned to testify in court.
