How To Use Convocation In A Sentence
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Hejazi gave a speech, which boomed from the speakers over the convocation mall, leaving cookie nibblers stunned.
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The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the graduand.
Life in the Medieval University
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It is also clear that the most desirable way forward would actively involve the University Convocation.
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The Standing Committee of Convocation may debate and submit a representative view on any issue which affects the University, and its aims are essentially to support and promote the interests of the University in the widest possible sense.
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From Megiddo in 1485 BC to Kosovo in ad 1999, this argument runs, the only thing all wars have had in common has been to increase governments' powers of convocation and coercion.
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Arch. suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D.
Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Well, I have to be around campus this weekend to participate in the honors convocation, so I get to wear my pretty little skirt, hood, and scholarly looking square cap for three whole hours on Saturday!
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The chancellor's official duty is to confer degrees upon graduands at convocation.
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The President's Office confirmed the award winner would be honored during the university's spring awards convocation, lending additional legitimacy to the award.
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The proceedings of the convocation of Canterbury were conducted in English quite often by the 1370s, and Henry IV spoke to Parliament in English in 1399 and had his words carefully recorded.
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Please note that the summaries and minutes of meetings of Convocation published above exclude information which the University has declared will not be routinely published under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer.
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
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Contributing editor Angela Dodson reports on how black books are part of many expos, conventions, and other large convocations.
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Diplomas in certain subjects, as health, education, geography, and political economy, are granted by Convocation after a certain period of study and an examinational test.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles.
A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow
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As well as a variety of service activities, Pavia also included dwellings to accommodate the representatives of the various bishoprics and monasteries during convocations of the kingdom's assemblies and synods.
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The College of Agriculture presented annual awards to faculty and staff at its spring semester convocation Jan.13.
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The date for the convocation of the people's congress has been announced.
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The deputies did not forget that what had forced the convocation of the future National Assembly was the scale of the State's debts.
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At one stage in the early 17th century, by about 1615 when there's a convocation, there are six or seven bishoprics held by Scots bishops in Ireland in the Church of Ireland, in the established church.
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In which respect I have returned my dutiful acknowledgement, which I beseech you to present, when you shall call a convocation, about some matter of greater moment.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
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James Horrocks, President of William and Mary College and Commissary to the Bishop of London, called a convocation of the clergy.
History of Virginia
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
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The three were selected from 25 nominations submitted last month and will be recognized at the university's spring awards convocation March 28.
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When the convocation met there were a great many sermons preached by various learned and eloquent divines, but nothing was produced which was pronounced by the general voice a satisfactory answer to the doctrines of the heresiarch.
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Rational Review
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Initially, the hall was to host lectures and speeches as primary functions, followed by university convocations and ceremonies, and lastly musical and theatrical performances.
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But, he's still able toweasel invitations to events like Monday's convocation of Party "loyalists" in Washington, an annual event organized to make the remainingfinancial contributors feel as though they are not, in fact, dying, but full ofpiss and vinegarand daily-dose Cialis, andready to hear How The Liberals Will Be DefeatedNext Year For Sure.
Look! It's Me! Look! Please!
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Here was an assembly of the people of God, not a convocation of the Levites and priests, though a Levite was the person principally concerned in the cause, but an assembly of the people, to whom the Levite referred himself with an Appello populum -- I appeal to the people.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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The graduates were well attired for the occasion, with coloured convocation robes, inner suit and the flat cap completing the ensemble.
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Conversely he extends the hand of friendship to other heads of faiths at a convocation he convened in Rome.
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The convocation of a national representative assembly meant the end of absolute monarchy.
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Outside the window of my home office there is a hackberry tree, visited frequently by a convocation of politic birds: blue jays, yellow-throated vireos, and loveliest of all, an occasional red cardinal.
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At the beginning of 1531 the Convocation of Canterbury were informed that they could purchase a pardon for the praemunire they had incurred by presenting the king with the enormous sum of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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When the Bull of convocation and the Bull appointing the conciliary legates were read, Cardinal del Monte declared the ecumenical council opened, and appointed 7
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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This is a Canadian university and as such, the Canadian anthem is sung at all convocations to honour the achievements of our Canadian students.
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Despite its being known as the Authorized Version, it was never publicly authorized by parliament, convocation, privy council, or king.
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On 9 July the convocation pronounced the marriage invalid, on the grounds of a possible precontract and on a lack of inward consent for the bridegroom.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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There is a growing awareness that education goes much beyond books and classrooms, degrees and convocations.
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This requires a specific recommendation by Convocation and a subsequent report by the Senate to be submitted to Council with reference to each individual.
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The annual faculty and staff spring awards convocation will be held Monday, April 16.
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For example, convocations, senior capstones, or service learning requirements are all effective ways of communicating values while renewing the commitment of faculty, staff, and students to the vision of the institution.
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Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536.
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Convocation will culminate on Saturday with the graduation of students from the mathematics and engineering faculties.
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Wednesday, 9: 45 a.m. Faculty of Arts graduands receive their degrees in a ceremony in the Convocation Mall.
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As his column notes, Yale has on the contrary already ‘postponed’ its freshman convocation for the first time in its history.
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‘The numbers are many,’ she told the convocation audience of more than 1,200.
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There will be no announcement of this convocation until they tell us they are ready.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The dreaded and cunning "jellies" are probably even now holding underwater convocations with plans to invade the North Shore of Boston.
Dana Kennedy: The Big Sting: Tales from the Jellyfish Front in the Mediterranean
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Over the past several years, the convocation has been held at Ohio State, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.
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The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
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At the University's fall convocation on October 25, honorary degrees will be conferred on five distinguished scholars.
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Eleven months after receiving an invitation to address this topic for a Lutheran convocation of teaching theologians, my wife of twenty-six years was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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The revival of religious controversy was extremely unwelcome to Whig ministers and when the matter was raised in the lower house of convocation, that body was hastily prorogued, not to meet again until 1852.
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Inevitably, the kids come to adore him, and he enters their group in a local competition, a plan which an angry convocation of parents threatens to derail.
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Though now under royal control the convocations of Canterbury and York survived.
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I was involved in the largest convocation we ever held, and I will cherish that memory forever.
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There were almost 60 quotes from ‘ordinary people’ who'd attended many Strib-sponsored convocations.
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses give them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition
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Thanks to things like the Poetry Project and Naropa and other off-the-beaten-track arts centres there are festivals and convocations, and poets are on the Internet too.
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Mattel plans to hand out one Convention Barbie doll to each delegate at both the Republican and Democratic convocations.
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I imagine convocations of Italian tin designers arguing late into the night over the precise size of the lid, the length of the movement, the size of the tin itself, so that it may sit exactly in the curl of the hand.
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When they were slow to yield, he called a convocation of the people and aroused them to a due sense of the wrong they had been enduring, and laid bare the sins of the rulers and nobles.
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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The first gold medal will be awarded in the 2004 convocation to be held in late March.
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We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.
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He was accused of heresy, brought before convocation, and absolved on making a complete submission, 1532.
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Small groups of students are filtering by me, all headed directly for the coliseum, where the convocation is scheduled to start in couple of hours.
Waldo Jaquith - Four scenes from Virginia Tech.
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The day we visited, the streets bubbled with life as people in luminous blue gowns headed to a convocation at the cathedral.
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Eastern they're scheduled to have, what, it's being called a convocation tomorrow?
CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2007
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Security and logistic preparations are well under way in Algeria in preparation for the convocation of the highest-level Arab wide congregation.
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The quorum necessary for the convocation of the summit is 15 member states.
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Their convocation was the parliament of German infidelity.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
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Yet the phrase "gun control" is about as welcome at party convocations as a stem-winder from Karl Rove.
Francis Wilkinson: Why Giuliani Gets Away With It
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This is sad, really, because if you're bogarting the Convocation Mall for an evening to set up a beer garden, then it would be in your best interest to make sure that there are people there to drink the beer.
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This lively convocation of gods, goddesses, demigods, kouroi, korai, horses, mythical beasts, and grave stelai is electrifying, all the more so because the ensemble includes such Ancient Art 101 mainstays as the Kritios Kouros and the torso of the Rampin Rider (fitted with a casting of the horseman's head, now in the Louvre).
Grading the New Acropolis
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As many as 63 students were awarded diplomas at the annual convocation of the Indo-Swiss Training Centre here yesterday.
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One such initiative was the convocation that was held here recently for these children.
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The six-college convocation fostered a creative and supportive relationship between the faculty, staff and students who attended.
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On Wednesday, at a convocation honoring the four professors who have received tenure this year, Provost Dan Hornbach spoke eloquently about the importance of tenure for the preservation of academic freedom.
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Until today it has held 13 annual convocations, discussing a host of challenging matters including cloning, intellectual property rights, Internet, organ transplantations, etc.
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Convocation is the University's Graduate Association and includes University Officers, academic/academic-related members of staff and invited Honorary Graduates.
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He occupied the illustrious post of Slade Professor of art at Oxford when convocation voted to endow vivisection in the University and install Dr. Burdon Sanderson, the smotherer of dogs, in a laboratory set up for him.
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
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(at that time especially) gave such credit to his errors: how he erred with Mr. Calvin, whilst he took things upon trust in the sublapsarian way: how, being chosen to be a Clerk of the Convocation for the
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
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Replying to a student's question at the convocation ceremony of the International Islamic University here, Gilani said the prevalent system in Pakistan was a 'hotchpotch' of a system.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.
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This degree is to be awarded at their convocation on June 16, 2005.
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Work approved by the select committee will finally be taken to a general convocation for a stamp of approval.
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For my Yankee readers, most of whom know not the term convocation, it's a word used for the ceremonies of entering and leaving university ... in other words a fancy-pants greeting and a graduation that is conducted primarily in Latin.
Trinityboy Diary Entry
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The cold formality and dread-inducing, proto-Nurse-Ratched efficaciousness of this convocation affords a chilling counterbalance to the vulnerability implied in the prisoner portraits.
ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)
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Incoming students also participate in a freshman convocation that serves to welcome first-generation families.
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During the last year, Pye has piloted his battered 1992 Buick Roadmaster to more than four dozen UFO convocations.
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He intends to recognize new appointees at future convocations.
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The man who sent this e-mail to the bishops says that he had this allegedly had an encounter with Reverend Robinson during what's called a convocation a few years ago.
CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2003
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If you can't restrain yourself, you'll be removed from this convocation.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The proposal is to complete the convocation by July ’, Prof. Ponnusamy states.
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After this splenitive exordium he proceeded to express the opinion that all the hatred and complaints against the Cardinal had arisen from his opposition to the convocation of the states-general.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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The chimere is the Convocation habit of a doctor of divinity in
Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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congregation"; in convocation for worship, where especially love, order, and harmony should prevail.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Those inadequate and closely-packed, green leather benches facing each other in that stuffy chamber would induce quick tempers, name calling and fist fights in a convocation of Quaker pacifists.
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Not the least of the agents is the word sound, not only the occasion of our convocation, but a meta-trope for poetry in the ear, whether heard or silently audited, more endear'd.
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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But besides policy statements, Walker said he planned public convocations and forums for discussions on tolerance and diversity.
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The president is just one among a number of speakers who are going to speak today at what is being called a convocation there.
CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2007
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This year seven professors will be receiving the title of professor emeritus at convocation ceremonies.
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The graduates were well attired for the occasion, with coloured convocation robes, inner suit and the flat cap completing the ensemble.
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_The securities_ which the Church had were these: First, that the assembling of the Convocation was obviously necessary for the purposes of taxation; secondly and mainly, that the very solemn and fundamental laws by which the jurisdiction of the See of Rome was cut off, assigned to the spiritualty of the realm the care of matters spiritual, as distinctly and formally as to the temporalty the care of matters temporal; and that it was an understood principle, and (as long as it continued) a regular usage of the
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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The petition went on to demand the eight-hour working day, the separation of church from state, a fair wage, land to be redistributed, and the convocation of a constituent assembly.
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Decision-making would be slow, if it routinely required the convocation of a large number of people to take management decisions.
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This was their second reunion as a similar convocation gathered for a get together in Summerhill twenty-five years ago.
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Weisflog rattles off the planned improvements: new choir ranks in both organs, several mixture stops, a pedal open diapason, and an en chamade or horizontal state trumpet to lend pomp and pageantry to academic convocations.
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Convocation; but finding themselves eventually rather out of their element, on the wrong side of the cruive dyke, and not wishing to fall as fry into the cook's hands, have sea-ceded some time after the disruption of their General Assembly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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The ethnic convocations, students and university officials say, help inspire family members and friends to strive for higher education.
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Rational Review
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For the first time, all-university awards formerly presented at a spring ceremony will be presented during the fall convocation.
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While the clansmen were out forming the tinchel, the lords were assembled in secret convocation, in which the Earl of Mar eloquently counselled resistance to the rule of King George, and the taking of arms in the cause of James
Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
