Sentence examples for were not convened from inspiring English sources

In 1673 the généralité of Aix was established as the seat of an intendant (royal governor), while the Estates of Provence were not convened between 1639 and 1787, until just prior to the French Revolution.

The Estates met for a few days each year, with some exceptions: they were not convened in the years 1831 and 1832 (time of the November Uprising in the neighboring Polish statelet, the Congress Kingdom).

Each doctor saw their patients within the usual framework of consultations, which were not convened specifically for the purposes of the investigation.

Even after the end of the war a congress was not convened for over seven years.

But this impromptu meeting was not convened to applaud him or Beltran, who scored on that hit.

"The United States is not convening a meeting for the purpose of going over various final status issues," he said in reference to the major points of contention between the Israelis and Palestinians that the Clinton administration unsuccessfully tried to resolve last year.

We are not convening for nostalgia's sake, but rather for the fierce urgency of now.

Instead, he is subject to an arcane administrative process agreed between the U.S. and Colombia (there is no extradition treaty, just a common practice "convention") which can easily take a year or longer--maybe much longer now that the Colombian Supreme Court chamber tasked with reviewing extradition cases is not convening due to political infighting and lack of a quorum.

But available evidence suggests that except for health facility and district meetings, regional level meeting are not always convened and no national meeting has ever been convened.

The remaining facilities were not able to convene their committees for the planning process within the required timeframe, but still produced workplans based on input from facility staff.

The task map, even in its incomplete form, also revealed other imbalances that were not so readily solved, so Helen convened her team for a daylong meeting to redistribute the workload.