What is "convening"

Usage examples of "convening".

This report is between Major Harper and General George Peters, post commander of Fort Dix, who has general court-martial convening authority in this case.

General Peters will then issue orders convening a general court-martial.

Here' -he handed Tyson a single sheet of typed paper - 'is your copy of the orders convening a general court-martial.

It is here that the convening authority usually gives special instructions to the court.

If the chain of command didn't instruct General Peters to exclude it, this court-martial board which has been constituted' - Tyson tapped the convening orders - 'may take that as a sign that the death penalty is precisely what the chain of command wants.

This court is convened by court-martial convening order one-thirty-nine, Headquarters, Fort Dix, New Jersey, a copy of which has been furnished to the military judge, each member of the court, counsel, and the accused.

They're convening at the main camp tonight, along with some of yours, I think.

But, even with so much to do, the continual delays in convening the CIS hearing were irritating and nerve-racking.

He assumed the Lord Holders must be convening somewhere else, but he did spot Farevene standing in the entrance hall, looking around uneasily.

The task of convening the citizens for the trial of each offender became more difficult, as the citizens and the offenders continually multiplied.

Whether settled periods of their convening, or a liberty left to the prince for convoking the legislative, or perhaps a mixture of both, hath the least inconvenience attending it, it is not my business here to inquire, but only to show that, though the executive power may have the prerogative of convoking and dissolving such conventions of the legislative, yet it is not thereby superior to it.

I answer: Between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth.

As usual, these things are being negotiated under the table, even as they bluster, but I wanted to let you know ahead of any Council convenings that a deal is already shaping up.