Sentence examples for were convoked from inspiring English sources
verb
To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
"They passed an alkali pan whereon were convoked an assembly of men's heads".
Among these gatherings were the earliest national assemblies to include representatives of towns and villages, which has caused historians to see them as early versions of what became the Estates-General, meetings of deputies representing the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners of the entire kingdom that were convoked beginning in the 14th century.
Two weeks after, patients were convoked for the 1 month day clinic, with the accompanying person of their choice.
The Congregationes were convoked by Pope Clement VIII with the aim of resolving what had become a widespread struggle between the two orders.
Responding to a great emotion calls for great means: Madame Yudina, the conductor and the orchestra were convoked in the middle of the night to record this disc of which the sole copy was found the next day on Stalin's desk.
A congress of Spartan allies was convoked to discuss grievances against Athens, and the decision was taken for war.
An odd mix of panellists had been convoked – Katie Price, Alastair Campbell, Selena Scott among others – while the audience was comprised of other has-beens, wannabes and just-abouts.
As rumors spread of a council to be convoked to declare the pope's infallibility, he lined up with DRated PG-13llinger in opposition.
The council was convoked not by an ecclesiastical authority but by the Roman emperor Constantine, who wanted the church to reach a final decision on the Arian controversy.
The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512 17), was convoked by Pope Julius II in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the Pope.
The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized.
