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  • They assembled a conclave of cardinals to select the next Pope.
  • They held a secret conclave in Amsterdam.
  • The moment he refused, of course, I called the Conclave together and brought them here.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should detain you until after the conclave when I do have time.†   (source)
  • Banned from the city for secrecy and security until the conclave concludes.†   (source)
  • "The Conclave stands ready," Robert said.†   (source)
  • Then the camerlegno prepared for conclave.†   (source)
  • So that he could plunder the Silent City without worrying about the Conclave.†   (source)
  • May I have the honor of escorting you to conclave, signore?†   (source)
  • You suggest we cancel conclave right now?†   (source)
  • Better to have something in the can before we admit we abandoned conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave had been violated, but this was the only way.†   (source)
  • You have some rather startling information to share with us regarding last night's conclave.†   (source)
  • A conclave is not some American baseball game you call on account of rain.†   (source)
  • If I did not know better it would appear that you are causing this conclave intentional danger.†   (source)
  • Conclave was a vacuum, not to be influenced by anything in the outside world.†   (source)
  • They are simply late for the fellowship preceding conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave judicature is extremely complex, and much of it is now forgotten or ignored as obsolete.†   (source)
  • Ah, the indignities we endure in the name of Holy Conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave begins in a little under an hour.†   (source)
  • Tonight's conclave will be unified, blissful, and above all …. brief.†   (source)
  • The conclave of 1831 had lasted fifty-four days.†   (source)
  • As your Great Elector, I have vowed to uphold the laws of conclave.†   (source)
  • How he came to be dressed this way and why he was not in conclave remain a mystery.†   (source)
  • Not tonight, he told himself; rumor was this conclave would be a "smokewatch."†   (source)
  • The conclave would need a leader tonight more than ever.†   (source)
  • That done, he began preparations for the conclave.†   (source)
  • After conclave is sealed, I could pull all except a few of my perimeter guards and begin a search.†   (source)
  • I have just removed a dozen of my best men from Vatican City on the eve of conclave.†   (source)
  • Since 1179, conclaves have survived earthquakes, famines, and even the plague.†   (source)
  • There's a local Conclave meeting at noon.†   (source)
  • As the conclave dispersed, Eragon motioned to Roran, Jormundur, and Arya.†   (source)
  • A second night came and still the Ents held conclave under hurrying clouds and fitful stars.†   (source)
  • She is bloodthirsty but she knows the Conclave, and the Law.†   (source)
  • Some, familiar to her as the Nephilim of the Los Angeles Conclave, in black, others in red gear.†   (source)
  • The Conclave wants to see you, and they don't like having to wait.†   (source)
  • "They did what they always do when there's an attack outside Idris and a Conclave is not near.†   (source)
  • Kadir's the second most important person in the Conclave, after my mom.†   (source)
  • When he had agreed to do this for the Conclave, he had forgotten how much Camille scared him.†   (source)
  • Around the table were seated the Conclave.†   (source)
  • They wiped out the Los Angeles Conclave.†   (source)
  • No. He's not one of the New York Conclave members, but beyond that he hasn't been identified.†   (source)
  • Every Conclave in these cities has had its Shadowhunters captured and Turned.†   (source)
  • I thought you said you couldn't come because of the Conclave meeting.†   (source)
  • "He'll wait us out," said a blond Shadowhunter from the Copenhagen Conclave.†   (source)
  • When you say they wiped out the Conclave, they didn't leave bodies.†   (source)
  • He could see her family behind her, all that was left of the Conclave.†   (source)
  • He has his original forces, and the six Conclaves he Turned; we have everyone else.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Langdon's refusal to speak publicly about his unusual role in last year's Vatican conclave certainly wins him points on our intrigue-o-meter.†   (source)
  • He arranged interviews on the most pervasive farcaster cable news programs, participated in All Thing discussions, and personally attended the Concourse Medical Research Conclave.†   (source)
  • She said she'd bring it up with the Conclave, but that she didn't have the Inquisitor's ear right now I get the feeling the Inquisitor has pushed Mom out of the way and taken over.†   (source)
  • She's called in half the Conclave.†   (source)
  • It had been years since he'd seen him in hunting gear; his time had been taken up with administrative tasks, with running the Conclave and dealing with Downworlder issues.†   (source)
  • When Valentine doesn't come through with his part of her deal, you're the ones who are going to have to convince her to send all the backup the Conclave has got after Valentine.†   (source)
  • The Conclave is in tatters.†   (source)
  • In twenty minutes I will be making a decision whether or not to cancel conclave and evacuate Vatican City.†   (source)
  • Enjoy your tea," the camerlegno told the four preferiti, leaving them in the Pope's private library before conclave.†   (source)
  • As overseer of the conclave, Mortati had already sent word through the proper channels to the Swiss Guard alerting them to the cardinals' absence.†   (source)
  • They are ready for you in conclave.†   (source)
  • "You are well aware," the camerlegno said, "that our four preferiti are not present in conclave at this moment.†   (source)
  • The laws of conclave are man's laws.†   (source)
  • I am also aware that as direttore intermediario, I have a responsibility for the safety and well-being of everyone at this conclave.†   (source)
  • For the first time in Vatican history, a camerlegno had just crossed the sacred threshold of conclave after sealing the doors.†   (source)
  • We have reason to believe it was placed inside your complex by an antireligious cult hoping to disrupt your conclave.†   (source)
  • If I am not mistaken, the cardinals are now safely within the Sistine Chapel, and your security concerns are at a minimum until the conclave breaks.†   (source)
  • Mortati was particularly unnerved by the missing cardinals because the task of supervising this conclave had fallen to him.†   (source)
  • Following tradition, the cardinals gathered here two hours before conclave to catch up with friends and engage in last-minute discussion.†   (source)
  • It's called conclave," Chinita said.†   (source)
  • Not only was the Sistine Chapel starting to feel like a sauna, but conclave was scheduled to begin in twenty minutes, and there was still no word on the four missing cardinals.†   (source)
  • A week ago, the College of Cardinals had unanimously chosen Mortati for the office known as The Great Elector-the conclave's internal master of ceremonies.†   (source)
  • Apparently there were troubling new developments, which could not be shared on-air, but the camerlegno had decided to break tradition and enter conclave to address the cardinals.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, most insiders already knew who was favored to become Pope well before conclave convened, so the process was more of a three— or four-hour ritual than an actual election.†   (source)
  • The only sound Mortati could now hear was the anomalous hum of a television camera in back-an electronic presence no conclave in history had ever endured-but a presence demanded by the camerlegno.†   (source)
  • Conclave begins in forty minutes.†   (source)
  • There is a threat to the conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave had officially begun.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, they had all commented; not only was the camerlegno responsible for planning the sacred conclave, but he had to do it immediately on the heels of the loss of his mentor, the Pope.†   (source)
  • Go to the chapel, seal conclave.†   (source)
  • Dangerous or not, Illuminati or no Illuminati, whatever this thing is, it most certainly should not be inside Vatican City …. no less on the eve of the conclave.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, vaguely recalling that before conclave the cardinals spent two hours inside the Sistine Chapel in quiet reflection and visitations with their fellow cardinals from around the globe.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, because the outcome of conclave was usually known before it began, the process was criticized as obsolete-more of a burlesque than an election.†   (source)
  • Conclave started an hour ago.†   (source)
  • Mr. Langdon, it is true that Vatican rule dictates the camerlegno assume chief executive office during conclave, but it is only because his lack of eligibility for the papacy ensures an unbiased election.†   (source)
  • The Swiss Guards had seen a lot of the camerlegno this week in preparation for conclave, and everyone had commented that the man seemed a bit rough around the edges, his verdant eyes a bit more intense than usual.†   (source)
  • Cardinals over eighty years of age were too old to be eligible for election and did not attend conclave, but at seventy-nine years old, Mortati was the most senior cardinal here and had been appointed to oversee the proceedings.†   (source)
  • I am going to break conclave.†   (source)
  • When the Vatican operator calls me a half hour before I begin conclave to tell me a woman is calling from your private office to warn me of some sort of major security threat of which I have not been informed, that concerns me.†   (source)
  • The appointment made one ineligible as a candidate during the election, and it also required one spend many days prior to conclave poring over the pages of the Universi Dominici Gregis reviewing the subtleties of conclave's arcane rituals to ensure the election was properly administered.†   (source)
  • Conclave was not an election.†   (source)
  • Conclave procedure obligates-†   (source)
  • If Langdon was correct, during the interim between Popes, complete autonomous power shifted temporarily to the late Pope's personal assistant-his chamberlain-a secretarial underling who oversaw conclave until the cardinals chose the new Holy Father.†   (source)
  • Conclave, he thought.†   (source)
  • Seal conclave.†   (source)
  • The Vatican Conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave.†   (source)
  • Conclave had been saved.†   (source)
  • Conclaves created an intense, politically charged atmosphere, and over the centuries they had turned deadly; poisonings, fist fights, and even murder had erupted within the sacred walls.†   (source)
  • Autumn had come, the Conclave had declared, but the gods had not seen fit to tell the winds and woods as yet.†   (source)
  • All Conclaves must return to Alicante.†   (source)
  • The Conclave met in Oldtown behind closed doors, Tyrion knew; its deliberations were supposedly a secret.†   (source)
  • She wished other members of the Conclave would come around more often, but she supposed everyone was giving the Lightwoods time at the moment.†   (source)
  • This one came to tell us that the Conclave has met, considered the reports and measurements made by maesters all over the realm, and declared this great summer done at last.†   (source)
  • "Thankfully, wiser heads prevailed, and the Conclave accepted the fact of Pycelle's dismissal and set about choosing his successor.†   (source)
  • Thank the archmaesters of Oldtown, those who wished to insist on Pycelle's restoration on the grounds that only the Conclave may make or unmake a Grand Maester."†   (source)
  • The only one not frowning was Saphira—her head was pushed through the entrance to the pavilion so thatshe could participate in the conclave—but her lips were pulled back slightly, as if she was about to snarl.†   (source)
  • Eragon and the others spent the rest of the conclave discussing practicalities: lines of communication—who was supposed to answer to whom; assignments of duty; rearrangements of the camp wards and sentinels to prevent Thorn or Shruikan from sneaking up on them again; and how to secure new equipment for the men whose belongings had been burned or squashed during the attack.†   (source)
  • Do you think that if she summons you again, you could get word to me, or to the Conclave, letting us know where to find her?†   (source)
  • I'm sure the Conclave will go to the church and check it out, but twenty to one they don't find anything.†   (source)
  • I should probably go look up what I can find out about the Church of Talto before the Conclave gets back.†   (source)
  • Everyone's off doing some secret thing with the Conclave, and I didn't want to go, because Simon was going to be there, and I hate him now.†   (source)
  • It had been Jace's idea to have Simon take a picture with his cell phone and send it to the Conclave, which would allow them to Portal to where he was.†   (source)
  • "Aline's girlfriend," Clary blurted out, and saw the Conclave look at her with thinly veiled hostility.†   (source)
  • "Sebastian doesn't just attack Institutes; he murders or takes Conclave members from their own homes.†   (source)
  • Simon stepped back as the Shadowhunters of the Conclave swarmed around him, all in black like a murder of crows; he saw Jace, his face pale and set like white marble, slide a broadsword blade through one of the human servants as he passed him, as casually as a pedestrian might swat a fly.†   (source)
  • "A noble idea," said Josiane Pontmercy, from the Marseilles Conclave, "but perhaps not entirely practical."†   (source)
  • He was rarely in charge of her training—that was usually Maryse, Kadir, or various other members of the New York Conclave pinch-hitting until a replacement for the Institute's previous tutor, Hodge, could be found—but when he was, he took it very seriously.†   (source)
  • The whole of the Conclave—nearly every Shadowhunter in New York City—had come through the gates of the Institute and passed through the shimmering Portal.†   (source)
  • Simon is with the Conclave?†   (source)
  • I think we should summon Miss Brent to join our conclave.†   (source)
  • I figured the conclave was about to break up.†   (source)
  • So he appointed himself elected himself probably out of some conclave of neighbors and citizens who came together to discuss her affairs and what to do with her after they realised that nothing under the sun, certainly no man nor committee of men, would ever persuade her to go back to her niece and brother-in-law—the same citizens and neighbors who left baskets of food on her doorstep at night, the dishes (the plates containing the food, the napkins which covered it) from which she…†   (source)
  • She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered; to detach it; separate it off; clean it of all the emotions and odds and ends of things, and so hold it before her, and bring it to the tribunal where, ranged about in conclave, sat the judges she had set up to decide these things.†   (source)
  • The whole conclave except these two was unanimous.†   (source)
  • They looked like kobolds from some magic mine—gnomes of the hills in conclave.†   (source)
  • In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member.†   (source)
  • "Ay, sure, shepherd," said the conclave.†   (source)
  • Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.†   (source)
  • But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave, Mrs. Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.†   (source)
  • Mrs Durbeyfield was welcomed with glances and nods by the remainder of the conclave, and turned to where her husband sat.†   (source)
  • "The conclave's breaking at last.†   (source)
  • …him, such as when he had met a woman in the train, and had taken her home with him, before discovering that she was the sister of a reigning monarch, in whose hands were gathered, at that moment, all the threads of European politics, of which he found himself kept informed in the most delightful fashion, or when, in the complexity of circumstances, it depended upon the choice which the Conclave was about to make whether he might or might not become the lover of somebody's cook.†   (source)
  • "Your Rambouillet is in full conclave," he said, looking round at all the party; "the graces and the muses."†   (source)
  • In the midst of this Round Table of beggary, Clopin Trouillefou,—as the doge of this senate, as the king of this peerage, as the pope of this conclave,— dominated; first by virtue of the height of his hogshead, and next by virtue of an indescribable, haughty, fierce, and formidable air, which caused his eyes to flash, and corrected in his savage profile the bestial type of the race of vagabonds.†   (source)
  • The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said, 'Mr.†   (source)
  • And in those nightly conclaves in which the two ladies indulged after their parties, and while Miss Payne was "brushing their 'airs," as she called the yellow locks of the one and the soft brown tresses of the other, this girl always put in her word for that dear good gentleman Major Dobbin.†   (source)
  • Be this as it may, the boys were recalled from house-window, garden, stable, and cow-yard, and the school were assembled in full conclave, when Mr Squeers, with a small bundle of papers in his hand, and Mrs S. following with a pair of canes, entered the room and proclaimed silence.†   (source)
  • The conclave which compiles the index of the Roman Catholic Church is the most august, ancient, learned, famous, and authoritative censorship in Europe.†   (source)
  • "Answer me not," said the Templar, "by urging the difference of our creeds; within our secret conclaves we hold these nursery tales in derision.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the conclave of the passed masters of pickpockets, one had some difficulty in distinguishing the King of Argot, the grand coësre, so called, crouching in a little cart drawn by two big dogs.†   (source)
  • Only if Ares fights, or Lord Apollo, or if they keep Akhilleus from the combat, then the clang of battle will begin between us on the spot— with a quick outcome, I predict: they'll be so battered by our arms, they must fall back on the Olympian conclave.†   (source)
  • And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome, And thank the holy conclave for their loves.†   (source)
  • Schemes have indeed been laid in the vestry which would hardly disgrace the conclave.†   (source)
  • Every mere council of appointment, however constituted, will be a conclave, in which cabal and intrigue will have their full scope.†   (source)
  • But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demi-gods on golden seats, Frequent and full.†   (source)
  • The history goes on to say, then, that when the bachelor Samson Carrasco recommended Don Quixote to resume his knight-errantry which he had laid aside, it was in consequence of having been previously in conclave with the curate and the barber on the means to be adopted to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in peace and quiet without worrying himself with his ill-starred adventures; at which consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of all, and on the special advice of Carrasco,…†   (source)
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