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More "Convening" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... convening the Court (a copy of which was not received by me at my division headquarters until two days after the time appointed for the Court to assemble) contemplates an inquiry based on the application of Lieutenant ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... innocent posterity; and to-day, to be known as the descendant of a Yazoo man is a badge of disgrace. The deed, however, was done: how to undo it became an agitating question. The Legislature next ensuing was elected pledged to repeal the odious Act; and upon its convening, all made haste to manifest an ardent zeal in ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks
... end o' the wedge," he warningly exclaimed, "and it's no' a far cry noo to the candles an' the incense. They'll be bringin' ower the pope next," and the kirk session, convening the next night, soon stopped that ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... June session of this honorable body shall close your meetings for the summer; also, that hereafter you hold three sessions annually, convening once in four months; oftener is not requisite, and the [25] members coming from a distance will be ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... together watched the convening of the Legislature, having chosen seats in the upper lobby of the House. Harry looked for Skelly, but not seeing him he inferred that the mountaineer's leave of absence was short and that he had gone ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... continuations of their assemblies, without necessary occasion, could not but be burdensome to the people, and must necessarily in time produce more dangerous inconveniencies, and yet the quick turn of affairs might be sometimes such as to need their present help: any delay of their convening might endanger the public; and sometimes too their business might be so great, that the limited time of their sitting might be too short for their work, and rob the public of that benefit which ...
— Two Treatises of Government • John Locke
... men, Kuyter and Melyn, demanded an appeal to the people in reference to some act of Kieft's reckless administration. Stuyvesant took the alarm. If the people could judge of Kieft's administration, his own might be exposed to the same ordeal. Convening a special ...
— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott
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