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That would ease passage of some of Castro's legislative priorities, but her pledge to convoke an assembly to rewrite the country's constitution could still be blocked since that would require a two-thirds majority.

From Reuters ● Dec. 1, 2021

Fernandez currently has a working majority in both houses of Congress, but would need two-thirds' congressional support to convoke an elected constitutional assembly.

From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2012

Messori explained that if a Pope decided he was no longer capable of leading the Church, he would convoke a Consistory of all the world's cardinals at the Vatican.

From Time ● Jan. 27, 2010

Venezuela seemed ready to convoke its Congress, declare war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Garashanin induced Prince Alexander Karageorgevich to convoke a national assembly, which had not been called to meet for ten years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Francis turns 87 in December and whether he convokes another consistory next year or in 2025 depends on how long he lives.

From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2023

He is the supreme authority of the state and commander in chief of the armed forces, concludes treaties and declares war, convokes and dissolves Parliament and appoints and dismisses ministers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Emperor convokes the Imperial Diet, opens, closes, prorogues, and dissolves it.

From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell

In the Olympic games, which he founded, and to which he convokes the whole of Greece every four years, why does he only crown the victorious athletes with wild olive?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

The day after the defeat," says Caesar, "Vercingetorix convokes the assembly, and shows that he did not undertake the war for his own personal advantage, but for the general freedom.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by M. (François) Guizot

Francis convoked an extraordinary general chapter for Jan. 25 to begin the process of electing a new Grand Master.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2022

The pope convoked all Chilean bishops to Rome for days of intense meetings, at the conclusion of which all 34 offered their resignation, a first.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

“It is very important that an extraordinary Synod has been convoked on the theme of the pastoral of the family,” Vatican spokesperson Fr.

From Time ● Oct. 8, 2013

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2013

We found quantities of people, as all the Corps Diplomatique had been convoked.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

President Hoover, in convoking the Commission in May, sedulously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as an object for scrutiny.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea has come more and more to the front of ... convoking a special advisory committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

This could well mean a convoking of something like the shortlived Geneva Conference that met just after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

From Time Magazine Archive

By convoking the constituencies to elect a Convention, it had annulled itself.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis