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Example sentences for "convening"

Lexicographically close words:
conveniency; convenient; conveniente; convenientia; conveniently; convenir; convenire; convenit; convent; conventicle
  1. The convening of this council was arranged, and the deliberations themselves conducted, with great parade and ceremony.

  2. Eurybiades was persuaded, and immediately took measures for convening the council again.

  3. Upon the firing on Sumter President Lincoln issued his first call for troops and soon after a proclamation convening Congress in extra session.

  4. Some of the Cotton States will pursue a more radical policy than will be palatable to the border States, but this only increases the necessity of convening the consultative body of which I have spoken.

  5. The convening of this body gave rise to much dissatisfaction among the people of Texas.

  6. We should welcome the convening of a National assembly of recognized leaders of the people, representing all shades of political opinion of every caste, race and creed, to frame a constitution for Swaraj.

  7. The All-India Congress Committee has resolved upon convening a special session of the Congress for the purpose of considering, among other things, the situation arising from the report.

  8. At Augsburg he renewed the promise of convening it within a year.

  9. Some came to me and asked permission to go, saying that they were tired of the war and would not be caught in the ranks again, and I bade them go.

  10. He had also seen notices in the newspapers of Mr. Lincoln's visit to Richmond, and had read in the same papers that while there he had authorized the convening of the Legislature of Virginia.

  11. Accordingly these officers, convening an assembly of the soldiers, protested against the duplicity of Xenophon in thus preparing momentous schemes without any public debate or decision.

  12. In the meanwhile the appointed date for the convening of the Assembly had come.

  13. When, in the spring of 1682, it became apparent that another large crop must be expected, an almost universal demand arose for the immediate convening of the Assembly for the passage of a law of cessation.

  14. Convening of the Assembly to appoint a fit person to execute the Office of Clerk of the House of Burgesses, & not to permit upon any pretense whatsoever any other person to execute ye said Office but such as shall bee soe chosen by you.

  15. Sucre undertook to remedy this situation while Bolívar attended to the convening of the constitutional congress in Perú.

  16. Bolívar decided to remain in Perú until the convening of the following congress, which was to assemble in 1826.

  17. As revised in 1969, the statutes call for the convening of a party congress every five years.

  18. Convening ten days after the election, the new Grand National Assembly reelected Ceausescu as president of the Council of State and renamed Maurer as prime minister.

  19. The party statutes as revised in 1969 call for the convening of conferences every fourth year in the counties, in the city of Bucharest, and in the larger towns.

  20. It has been the uniform practice of each President to avoid, as far as possible, the convening of Congress in extraordinary session.

  21. In convening a World's Convention, no innovation upon the general social usages was contemplated by our brethren in England who called it.

  22. But, at the ensuing Christmas, convening a great number of the clergy and nobility at London, he gave the county of Salop to his wife, the daughter of the earl of Louvain, whom he had married after the death of Matilda.

  23. Soon after convening an assembly at Gillingham, Godwin, unfolding his reasons, caused him to be received as king, and homage was paid to him by all.

  24. The courts were held in pursuance of the governor's proclamation, the first one convening at Stillwater.

  25. On the 28th of September an order was issued convening this court martial.

  26. The party of Order provoked the Mountain immediately upon the convening of the assembly.

  27. All that seemed wanting for the signal of battle to sound was the convening of the National Assembly.

  28. Convening there my friends, I thus began.

  29. In every third month, the meetings of the court would also be the occasion for convening the successor to the colonial courts of the Quarter Sessions, at which criminal charges not involving capital punishment were tried.

  30. The cupola, located at the ridge of the roof, 9-1/2 feet from the gable end at the front, was part of the original design of the courthouse and houses a bell once used to announce the convening of the court sessions.

  31. The bell referred to by the Court was a standard feature of many Virginia courthouses, and was rung to announce the convening of court sessions.

  32. Conferences, the convening of High Councils, preparing elders to go on missions, making arrangements for settling the ever-increasing numbers of the saints on the new lands of Far West, were the common labors of the day.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.