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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of convene.
Examples
“In an e-mail to students Sunday evening, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she and University President Richard Levin convened with college masters, deans, administrators and members of the General Counsel to "decide on next steps.”
The Huffington Post: Yale May Launch Formal Investigation Into Party Raid
“In early October, Dr. Marie Jahoda and Dr. Seider Chein convened a meeting with Dr. Raths to confront him with the methodological flaws in his study.”
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
“Taking a page from Mr. Chávez's book, Mr. Correa early in his first term convened a constitutional assembly to rewrite some of Ecuador's political rules.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ecuador's Correa Poised to Win Second Presidential Term
“That this was the council which Herod now convened is most probable, from the solemnity of the occasion; for though the elders are not mentioned, we find a similar omission where all three were certainly meant (compare Mt 26: 59; 27: 1).”
“Christ Church, some of those who were present as wedding guests were again convened to tender the last offices to the brilliant and popular”
“Blaine admitted -- in what he thought was a "confidential" company-wide conference call convened to explain the attempted Hart takeover to employees after they'd read the news on The BRAD BLOG -- that the company hadn't actually acquired the the IP from Smartmatic in their deal.”
“Still, Fed officials agreed on the emergency move during a videoconference call convened hastily Monday evening by Mr. Bernanke.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fed Rate Cut Halts Market Free Fall,
“On a call convened that evening by Mr. Bernanke, most FOMC members "judged that an immediate reduction in the federal-funds rate was called for to begin aligning [it] with a weakening economic situation.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fed Minutes May Presage More Rate Cuts
“After a fortnight’s adjournment, the senate was again convened to pronounce the sentence of his death; but while he expected, in the Island of Aesculapius, the expiration of the thirty days allowed by an ancient law to the vilest malefactors, 100 his friends interposed, the emperor Anthemius relented, and the praefect of”
“Before the Reichstag convened the Chancellor went to Great Headquarters for a final conference with the Kaiser and Field Marshal von Hindenburg.”
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