Sample Sentences for

convoke

(editor-reviewed)

I think we should convoke a military tribunal right now and pass sentence.†  (source) Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon, 1959

I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Sixth: Under the Charter of the United Nations, we are asking tonight that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be convoked without delay to take action against this latest Soviet threat to world peace.†  (source) John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Speech, 1962

If, for instance, a school is to be established, the selectmen convoke the whole body of the electors on a certain day at an appointed place; they explain the urgency of the case; they give their opinion on the means of satisfying it, on the probable expense, and the site which seems to be most favorable.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

Holy Saint Bernard, in the rule of our knightly and religious profession, hath said, in the fifty-ninth capital, [53] that he would not that brethren be called together in council, save at the will and command of the Master; leaving it free to us, as to those more worthy fathers who have preceded us in this our office, to judge, as well of the occasion as of the time and place in which a chapter of the whole Order, or of any part thereof, may be convoked.†  (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

Then his wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

It was therefore established that every State should name a certain number of electors, *v who in their turn should elect the President; and as it had been observed that the assemblies to which the choice of a chief magistrate had been entrusted in elective countries inevitably became the centres of passion and of cabal; that they sometimes usurped an authority which did not belong to them; and that their proceedings, or the uncertainty which resulted from them, were sometimes prolonged so much as to endanger the welfare of the State, it was determined that the electors should all vote upon the same day, without being convoked to the same place.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

I convoked a meeting and intro-duced DeSheim to the Negro company, telling them that he was a man who knew the theater, who would lead them toward serious dramatics.†  (source) Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945