142 Verbs to Use for the Word assemblies

After the king has held the assembly, he further exhorts the ministers to make other and special offerings.

" We immediately entered the temple; and I beheld an Ecclesiastic rising at that moment to address a very numerous Assembly of his order, that seemed to contain Christians of every sect, and Ministers of every degree.

Scipio, having summoned an assembly, presented Masinissa, in addition to his paternal dominions, with the town of Cirta, and the other cities and territories which had passed from the kingdom of Syphax into the possession of the Romans.

At that time the king, who was a sincere believer in the Law of Buddha and wished to build a new vihâra for the monks, first convoked a great assembly.

Caesar, that he might appear to not to have used any force upon them, did not enter the assembly,as if it was his presence that any one feared instead of his power.

Of the older and more sensible citizens some endeavored to oppose this fatal decision, but were overwhelmed by the clamor of the war party, while the rest, observing this, ceased to attend the public assembly.

It was at this time that Augustus allowed the senate to try the majority of cases without his being present, and he no longer frequented the assemblies of the people.

According to the story, the Caliph called a great assembly of the people, and invited the sherifs to appear; then, half drawing his sword, he said: "Here is my pedigree," and scattering gold among the spectators, added, "and there is my proof.

If you do, after all, think fit to dissolve this assembly, do not tell me that you desire me to do it, for that will not satisfy my conscience; but send me your positive command in such full and express terms as may absolve me from all guilt and punishment for the neglecting this opportunity of doing good, when you and I shall appear before the great and awful tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Due to these charters, on July 30, 1619, the little remnant of colonists whom disease and famine had left untouched were summoned to meet in the church at Jamestown to form the first parliamentary assembly in America, the first-born of the fruitful Mother of Parliaments.

To complete the execution of this system of perfidy, Philip convened an assembly of all the states at Ghent, in the month of July, 1559.

Before midnight Esmo dismissed the assembly by a formula which dimly recalled to memory one heard in my boyhood.

On leaving these free and peaceful assemblies, some proceed to the synagogue, others to the tavern....

At one end of the room was a big chest containing dumb-bells and single-sticks, and Allingford, mounting on the top of this as the last stragglers from the dining-hall joined the assembly, called for silence.

On the visiters entering the house of one of them, a number presently collected; and as they stood together, a solemn feeling pervaded the assembly, and John Yeardley was moved to address them in gospel testimony.

China began establishing representative assemblies in each province, also a National Senate, in preparation for an elective government.

Pinarius upon this observed, "that if they thought it too much to send to the consul, still they would, at least, grant him an assembly of the people, that it might be ascertained whether these denunciations came from a few, or from the whole state.

The Revolution was at hand, and the days rapidly approaching when all such pleasant assemblies as those held by Mme.

He fears that some day they may control the assembly by their votes.

The people is sovereign; we, therefore, as its representatives, constitute ourselves a national assembly."

This, my lords, I need not observe to be the Dutch constitution, nor need I tell this assembly, that we are not always to judge of the general inclination of that people by the procedure of their deputies, since particular men may be influenced by private views, or corrupted by secret promises or bribes; and those designs may be retarded by their artifices which the honest and impartial universally approve.

We had been given to expect that, although we had taken the precaution to pitch our tent without the limits of the intolerant place, the police would be present, and would most probably disperse our assembly.

A fleet divided between several ports and not fully manned is not a fleet in commission; it is not ready, and its assembly as a fleet depends on a contingency, which there is no means of guaranteeing, that the enemy shall not be able to prevent its assembly by moving a fleet immediately to a point at sea from which it would be able to oppose by force the union of the constituent parts of the divided and unready fleet.

Contemplative men of studious habits and a philosophical cast of mind are apt to underrate the genius which sways a popular assembly.

Occasionally she went about, and from time to time would grace an assembly with her presence.

142 Verbs to Use for the Word  assemblies