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call together

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"As Pope Francis will be visiting Ireland next year, it is imperative that this work be completed, and you as priests are best placed to convoke your congregations and listen to them.
Over the past year, Convoke has added several updates to its platform to support its clients' evolving needs and has expanded its Arlington offices to accommodate its continued growth.
In November 2004, when John Paul II, toward the end of his earthly life, announced his intention to convoke in Rome a second synod of bishops, Special Assembly for Africa (an intention confirmed in June 2005 by Benedict XVI), many committed African theologians and scholars were very skeptical.
To give but one example, he notes that the decision to convoke the Estates General as it had been in 1614 was an attempt to use precedent to check ministerial manipulation and not "to establish the permanent hegemony of the clergy and nobility" (169).
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The timing to convoke the special session, which must be held within 30 days of a general election, would be subject to the DPJ's plans if the party looks certain to assume power, the official said.
An art sociopolitically motivated, as Ze Pinto puts it, unapologetically: "A people kept in ignorance / Always pays more / That's why I write poems of blood." An art that claims justice, as expressed by Campos in this apocalyptic ending: "Only the angel on the left / of a history groomed against / the grain shall manage with this / multi-swirling sword / (if only!) one day to / convoke from the nebulous / mass of days to / come at last / the overriding day of the / just / adjustment of / accounts.'Even so, Landless Voices in Song and Poetry itself serves as concrete proof that the MST is not willing to wait for a heavenly act.
The Adventure Is With One's Self: The adventure is with one's self,/with the ages in stone that struggle/to be sea or sky,/vulnerable earth where being/has left its stamp of life/saying that it sang pain,/laughed discouragement,/slept dreams,/created time/and that nothing it did,/nothing it will go on doing/has a beginning or an end point/nor route to traverse.//Everything is this song, Chanel,/of erect pyramid/so it can try to tell us something/fill our hollows with warmth/evoke the warm light of permanence.//We convoke it in the event it might become/the comforting fire of poem.
Eighteen months ago, we could not have foreseen that Afghanistan would convoke a representative Loya Jirga, select a transitional government to preside over reconstruction, and draft a constitution.
Since taking office in early 1999, he has called Venezuelans to the ballot box five separate times--first, to convoke a new constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution; then to elect members of that assembly; then to win approval for the charter it produced; then to hold new elections for president, governors, and mayors; and most recently, to dismantle the existing labor movement.
Cifuentes promised to convoke the PAN's executive committee to discuss ways to put some of the reforms into effect without constitutional changes.
It seems evident that neither party had such authority, nor did either party have authority to convoke an ecumenical council and thus "define a truth of the faith," as did Vatican I.
Again, I must say that the inability of the president to convoke a national economic council meeting where the Ajaokuta bill will be discussed cannot be said to be a legislative error and hence there was no need to reject the bill outrightly.
Gordon asked Sotto 'to convoke the ethics committee and I will file personally ethics committee case against this gentleman from Bicol.'