convoking

In particular, the pope seems to have had a horror of the idea of convoking a general council, foreseeing, no doubt, grave difficulties with France in any such attempt.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The pope did not relish the idea of convoking a national council which might unnecessarily protract the quarrel and endanger the papal authority.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

It declares its basic character when it represents itself as listening to the act of 'convoking', calling together.

'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007

But it is manifestly evident that the very fact of convoking this meeting, of referring to the Roms or the gens du voyage, when certain individual Roms or gens du voyage have been responsible for certain crimes or misdemeanors, in short, of blaming a community for the actions of some of its members, invites a risk of collective stigmatization which is contrary to republican practices.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Nicolas Sarkozy's Three Errors 2010

He misunderstands everything from the meaning of the Tower of Babel to the role of Pope John XXIII in convoking the council (and not living to see the reforms) to the fact that there is never a "mass" on Good Friday.

Afghanistan Is Vietnam: A Valid Analogy? 2009

During a meeting with delegates attending an 'International Meeting of Parties of the Left' in Caracas, President Chavez took a bold but measured step in convoking The Fifth International on grounds that it is not enough to mouth the current left-wing dominant slogan: a "better world is possible ... it is possible and necessary."

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez convokes Fifth International; vindicates 'Carlos the Jackal' 2009

Then he summoned his Secretary and bade him write to all the Lords of his land, convoking them at his Court, and caused proclamation to be made in his city to all the townsfolk great and small, bidding every one of the Emirs and Governors and

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Traditional arguments against convoking such a convention are that it might tamper with the Constitution itself, or that such a convention might be taken over by corporate interests and subverted to such ends.

Hello? Hello? Helllloooo? 2008

Enlightened persons, however, who know the reasons for the convoking of councils, or synods, and are no strangers to the differences between Pharisees and Sadducees, can easily divine the causes which led to the assembling of this great synagogue.

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

We behold him convoking and opening the Council of Nice; advancing into the midst of the assembled fathers, covered over with jewels, and with the diadem on his head, seating himself in the highest place, and banishing unconcernedly sometimes Arius and sometimes Athanasius.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007