convoking
- present participle of convoke.
Example Sentences
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President Hoover, in convoking the Commission in May, sedulously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as an object for scrutiny.
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Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February.
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This could well mean a convoking of something like the shortlived Geneva Conference that met just after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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Taylor's irritation seemed justified, but, as General Nguyen Khanh said last week, "He was convoking me as if he were MacArthur on occupation in Japan."
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At the commencement of October, the Admiral of Cayenne had only been able to set on foot 30,000 men, and nothing came from Tours but a decree convoking the election for the 16th.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
