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"convocation" Definitions
  1. [countable] a large formal meeting, especially of Church officials or members of a university
  2. [uncountable] the act of calling together a convocation
  3. [countable] (North American English) a ceremony held in a university or college when students receive their degrees

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Convocation typically draws a respectable but far from capacity crowd, yet on the morning of last September's ceremony, where Comey was due to deliver the convocation address, students and faculty packed the auditorium.
Did you know a group of eagles is called a convocation?
A security state quadcopter had delivered me an ochre convocation letter.
Biden will be the convocation speaker for Cornell later this month.
Hopefully, that will help you find the imposter in the the convocation.
Howard University announced Comey would be the college's convocation speaker this fall.
Liberty students will be protesting Falwell at 11:45 AM tomorrow after convocation.
Those words spurred energetic applause from thousands of college students at the weekly convocation.
The convocation speaker was the university president, Vice Admiral Fritz Roegge, a submariner and strategist.
Dr. Maguire described his educational philosophy in a convocation address at Old Westbury in 1980.
Appalachian State (8-68.63, 2-0) Holmes Convocation Center, Boone, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m.
Out of 150 submissions, it's down to five, which students will vote on before the convocation.
Bernie Sanders spoke at convocation in 2015 and Hillary Clinton was invited to speak, but declined.
This ceremony, a doctoral convocation for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, opened with bagpipes.
Ms. Brendt, 247, had found out about the convocation on the radio while driving to work.
Well, a griffin has hidden itself in this convocation and we need your help to find it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the first plenary meeting of the State Duma of the 7th convocation.
It's since been campus tradition for new students to touch the bell for good luck during convocation.
He was mocked then for citing "Two Corinthians" during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day convocation speech.
This is set to be the largest single convocation of ECM-related artists in the United States.
So I went and played my convocation piece in front of the entire music department (students and staff).
He will also serve as the Opening Convocation keynote speaker, welcoming the incoming Freshman class on September 22.
Amid the laughter and joy resounding in the convocation hall, mother and son find solace in one another.
The announced crowd at Jones Convocation Center, a first-rate arena, was 230, but the atmosphere was expectant.
The group formed outside a college convocation center where the commencement was held, creating a semicircle around the speakers.
Together, we waited in sub-freezing temperatures to enter the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium for sorority rush convocation.
This was hilariously petty — a convocation of female rappers preaching unity while brought together by someone with divisive intent.
Former Vice President Biden is expected to give the keynote address at this year's senior convocation at Cornell University.
Washington (CNN)Students at Howard University loudly protested former FBI Director James Comey Friday as he delivered a convocation address.
He said the focus of peace efforts should be the convocation of a congress bringing together all of Syria's ethnic groups.
At last summer's leadership convocation at the seaside resort of Beidaihe, Xi Jinping was apparently taken down a peg or two.
A number of people told me how impressed they had been by the speech he gave at the 2016 convocation ceremony.
Cryptocurrency blockchains require that a bunch of computers run software to affirm (or reject) transactions—it's a kind of automated convocation.
The Master's of Education student performed a spoken-word poem at Wednesday's 2016 Convocation Exercises for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
After the convocation on the first weekend in November, I met with Dustin Wahl in Liberty's student center, overlooking the campus quad.
At convocation, where Mr. Trump spoke, it is compulsory for students who live on campus to attend, with one or two exceptions.
Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered the senior convocation speech at Cornell University today, and he made a few jabs at Trump.
In a phone interview with CNN after the convocation, Falwell said he wasn't talking about all Muslims, just those who perpetrate attacks.
Students protest Comey speech Howard University students loudly yelled out against former FBI Director James Comey as he delivered a convocation address.
That, of course, was a convocation for racist ideology, which ultimately resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, numerous injuries, and widespread horror.
Why is the closing statement — on #MeToo — a Freudian riff by Monica Lewinsky, and not a convocation from the movement founder Tarana Burke?
He maintained close ties with his alma mater, delivering a convocation speech to students at the start of the school year in 2014.
The opening scene shows a convocation of young musicians, including the pianist Robert Glasper and the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, assembling in a studio.
I addressed the first global environmental convocation — the 1972 UN environmental conference — and made a public commitment to make Volvo more environmentally friendly.
A flyer for the CSA National Convocation—held October 276-219, 21993, in Pontiac, Missouri—promised free admission to listen to three guest speakers.
MJ recommends "George Saunders Advice to Graduates," a convocation speech that George Saunders gave in 2013 that reminds others of the importance of kindness.
Later that day, Trump speaks at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Myrtle Beach, S.C. and is the Liberty University convocation speaker on Monday.
"Each of us has the chance to seize this moment, and to create a powerful artistic voice," he said in his first convocation speech.
The agency is governed by an annual convocation of the health ministers of all U.N. countries, and its role is only to offer advice.
Harvard graduate Donovan Livingston's convocation speech will definitely go down in history as one of the most moving and meaningful graduation moments of all time.
Mr. Cruz announced his candidacy at the end of March at Liberty, giving him a conservative audience at a university where convocation attendance is mandatory.
"I literally wrote down 'Convocation Disruption 2.0,' " said Ms. Dey, a social work major and advocate for the houseless (because the street can be home).
"The dean's office saw and approved Matt's speech before our college convocation," Dean Ben Ogles of BYU's College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences tells PEOPLE.
The former vice president is receiving a Biden-themed ice cream from Cornell Dairy ahead of him speaking at Cornell University's convocation ceremony on May 27.
Art of the past seems not so much a parade as a convocation, not behind us but surrounding us and subject to case-by-case assessments.
In September, Comey was shouted down by protestors upset with his stance on the Ferguson Effect, among other things, as he spoke at Howard's convocation ceremony.
"Today, under Governor Cuomo's leadership, New York is a true beacon of justice," one of the ministers said as the two-day convocation began on Wednesday.
Zhang's comments echo those made by China's Premier Li Keqiang at the end of the country's National People's Congress, an annual parliamentary convocation, earlier this week.
Cornell Dairy, the university's on-site dairy brand, and the Cornell Convocation Committee are collaborating to come up with a Biden-inspired flavor ahead of graduation ceremonies.
Finally, there are the listeners among whom one sits—a convocation of European élites who have paid up to four hundred and thirty euros for their tickets.
So far, Comey's account has amassed more than 200,000 followers and follows just 19 accounts, including Howard University, where he delivered the university's convocation speech in September.
When Kanye West announced that he was planning to bring his Sunday Service convocation-performance to Coachella, he was met with skepticism — was he starting a church?
"Facebook has bigger things to worry about right now than rolling out response prompts on live video," Caroline Sinders, principal designer at Convocation Design+Research, told BuzzFeed News.
Kirk was at the Liberty University Convocation last week and went into what made him walk away from the big cash, and it's all about the man upstairs.
Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered another stinging indictment of President Donald Trump in a college convocation speech Saturday without ever mentioning the President by name.
In 1536, when he went to the Diet of Augsburg, another important convocation, he kept a picture of his favorite child, Magdalene, on the wall of his chamber.
Some cyber-related news could be made off Capitol Hill next week, with former FBI Director James Comey slated to speak at Howard University's opening convocation on Friday.
"James Comey represents an institution diametrically opposed to the interests of Black people domestically and abroad," said HU Resist in a statement passed out at the convocation Friday.
"Our antitrust laws cannot do anything against these types of monopolies," said Luigi Zingales, a finance professor at the University of Chicago, during a convocation address in June.
Ponder and his wife, sports reporter Sam Ponder, sat down at Liberty University Convocation when Christian opened up about how far he's come in his walk with the lord.
At convocation, as Harvard's president delivered a speech about the importance of forming a community, I worried that everyone had already found their friends for the next four years.
"A lot of our situation is just attention to detail," Dildy said, sitting in an empty media room inside Jones Convocation Center after the loss to New Mexico State.
Although there was no official communique, rumor had it that the convocation disapproved of the abolition of term limits and the cult of personality that Xi had built around himself.
"We had been planning to make this statement public regardless of Mike Pence, but we timed the launch to fit with the height of conversation about Pence's convocation," he said.
A convocation speech Ms. Chase delivered in 2013 at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, which viewed changes in classical music as an opportunity and a challenge, was much-discussed.
Rachel (Chalia La Tour) is in a state of high excitement as her plan to have Rosa Parks deliver the keynote address at a civil rights convocation finally approaches fruition.
Kaitlyn Dey, organizer for PSUSU (pronounced sue-sue), pointed out that membership surged after members stopped the president's convocation speech in 2015 and led the auditorium in a chorus of protests.
At Comic Con, a four-day convocation of cosplayers set against the fight for global hegemony between Marvel and DC Comics, Newman and Reubens were part of the personal-appearance cavalcade.
The stripped-down convocation included a panel discussion, guided meditation led by Stein, and a series of exercises led by poet Tracy Fuad and activists and teachers Kobi Skolnik and Vernice Miller.
The former FBI chief, whom President Trump fired in May amid the escalating probe into possible ties between Trump's campaign and Russia, is also set to speak at Howard's convocation Sept. 22.
Liberty University announced on Twitter on Monday its upcoming lineup of convocation speakers, including former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, current Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren and former NFL star Ray Rice.
"I realize now how unconsciously I entered into what was then viewed as a man's world," she said in a convocation address at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 2006.
Former FBI director James Comey struggled on Friday to give the convocation address at Howard University, speaking over a group of about 20 students who sang and chanted continuously throughout the speech.
At a time when global challenges can seem paralyzing in their complexity, the New York convocation offers a ray of hope, an indication of how worldwide alliances can in fact take root.
Published for the first time in my new book is "Southern Women: Old Myths and New Frontiers," a lecture I gave to the Honors College Convocation at the University of Mississippi in 2014.
And Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, an evangelical bastion, praised Mr. Trump in lavish terms at an event there on Martin Luther King's Birthday when the candidate gave the convocation.
This letter quickly grabbed the attention of school administrators, who decided to honor Toensing by inviting her to the 2018 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's convocation, at no cost to her.
Adorned in the Navy's "choker white" uniform, he joked that convocation speakers are largely forgettable, but he hammered home the need to study and the value of the organizational diversity of this class.
Declared "powerful" by Hillary Clinton and "inspired" by Justin Timberlake, the book is the convocation speech that Mr. Livingston, a poet and educator, gave last year to the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Students protested Comey's convocation speech at the school earlier this year, with activists contending that his FBI background makes him antithetical to the social justice movements championed by young black activists and Howard itself.
On Stein's "Porch Time," from the band's self-titled debut, a whispery convocation builds into nervous, reeling flurry; eventually the group establishes a freckly rhythm, horns dipping and dashing over a slanted bass pattern.
Thursday at the Diamond Cross Ranch here, Chris Rock stepped up on a small platform, looked out over a few hundred people huddled around a wildly flickering bonfire, and leaned in to his convocation.
But late Thursday, after the convocation was disrupted, he released a two-page letter to the "Howard University Community" defending his contact with the Trump administration and his meeting on campus with Ms. DeVos.
After they accepted their diplomas and the students filed out of the Connor Convocation Center at Thomas More College where the ceremony was held, they each delivered their speeches: first Ms. Frantz, then Mr. Bales.
At one point we were at the top of some mountain watching a convocation of eagles soar above us in an infinity pattern, and I was like, if I kiss this guy, my relationship is over.
If the church is ever to reform itself, Pope Francis must include the laity, particularly women, in the coming convocation in Rome and in all subsequent discussions on the subject of the sexual abuse of children.
Takeda's board of directors opposes the proposal, according to the company's notice of convocation that contained the proposal, saying the need for prior approval for such deals would damage competitiveness and the company's ability to make decisions.
Just like their recent stage production, "Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration," which debuted this year at Carnegie Hall, "Bleed" too was a convocation of friends and collaborators, its form dictated by their intersections.
"We will not hesitate to take any required steps to maintain financial stability in the short-, medium- and long-term," Das said in a speech on Saturday at a convocation ceremony in the western Indian city of Pune.
"I stand before my family, friends, and graduating class today to say that I am proud to be a gay son of God," said Easton during his convocation speech for the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences.
Harold Frazier, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux, said the convocation was a reminder for Native Americans that the federal government had fallen short of its agreements under the Laramie Treaty including by approving the Dakota Access pipeline.
It's all thanks to student Molly Mandel '17, who had interned for the Cornell Dairy Processing Plant the semester earlier and got the idea for creating a flavor for Biden after he was announced as the convocation speaker.
Trump and Putin had met twice previously but the Helsinki summit represented their most significant convocation to date, an encounter replete with non-verbal cues as two leaders known for their tough personas sized each other up once again.
ET this morning at the Howard University Economic Convocation in Washington, D.C. There are no major companies reporting earnings this morning, but Dow component Nike (NKE) and uniform maker Cintas (CTAS) issue quarterly numbers after this afternoon's closing bell.
The school held an online poll to determine the name of the ice cream—suggestions included Bits n' Biden and Uncle Joe's Chocolate Chip—and he will presumably be presented with a ceremonial cone during the school's convocation ceremonies.
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The leaders of Iran and Turkey on Wednesday supported the convocation of a Syrian peoples' congress as one of the first steps to establish inclusive dialogue in the war-ravaged country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Nancy Fishman, a criminal-justice policy expert at the Vera Institute, told me that "every sort of convocation of sheriffs or jail administrators or law enforcement" these days is consumed by the opioid crisis and its impact on jail health care.
At the end, the ashram singers came onstage for a joint performance (you knew they would), the horns and voices meeting in a fluid convocation, stitching together two sides of an artist that were never so far removed to begin with.
This convocation, the brainchild of Harvard University professor Sarah Lewis, is a powerful platform that puts Black artists and thought leaders like Ava DuVernay, Bryan Stevenson, Jelani Cobb, and David Adjaye at the forefront of the conversation of today's evolving Black experience.
The University of Chicago's student body president said he would be allowed to receive his diploma and march in the university convocation ceremony Saturday, after a hearing on misconduct charges for allowing protesters into the school's administration building to conduct a sit-in.
Mr. Comey gamely delivered his speech, at a ceremony marking the school's 150th opening convocation, amid disruptions from more than a dozen protesters in the packed, large auditorium who interrupted him repeatedly to let him know he was not welcome on campus.
SOCHI, Russia, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The leaders of Iran and Turkey on Wednesday supported the convocation of a Syrian peoples' congress as one of the first steps to establish inclusive dialogue in the war-ravaged country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
" Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence spoke at Liberty University's weekly convocation on Wednesday morning, addressing thousands of students and sharing his personal journey of finding faith and garnering a standing ovation for comments like "I'm pro-life and I don't apologize for it.
During rush convocation, we were told we were not permitted to consume alcohol during or bring men to recruitment events; sororities tend to mix with fraternities as opposed to other sororities; and some of my friends were asked if they had boyfriends during the process.
It was the start of the 2017 Fall Family Weekend at Liberty University, the school founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. 20153 years ago in Lynchburg, Va., and the lines were especially long to get into the basketball arena for the mandatory thrice-weekly student convocation.
He also spoke in support of ObamaCare in March at a rally with congressional Democrats, is set to speak at a fundraiser for New Hampshire Democrats later this month and was also announced this week as the 2017 convocation speaker at Cornell, May 27.
A convocation of wizards is evoked through the simultaneous swirling of black capes; an otherworldly, xenophobic and unsettlingly topical-feeling Fascist brigade materializes and multiplies out of yawning darkness; and staircases, bookcases and suitcases assume varied and miraculous lives that propel both themes and story.
DeMeyer told CNN "it's heartbreaking" to think about not being able to participate in certain events surrounding commencement, like walking through Brown University's iconic Van Wickle gates, which open only twice in a school year -- once for freshman convocation and then again for senior graduation.
On Wednesday, the current chairman, Fred Ridley , a real-estate lawyer from Florida and a former amateur golf champion, submitted to his, with a few dozen members assembled at the back of the hall, like a convocation of cardinals—all in their green jackets.
World Science Festival (Wednesday through June 5) This annual convocation of science's great minds and their admirers returns and opens with "Awakening the Mind: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Oliver Sacks," a multimedia tribute to the beloved neuroscientist who died of cancer last year.
Though visiting the university's biweekly convocation has become a virtual requirement for anyone with a rising career on the right, Kelchner said that they'd often come in with the expectation that everyone on Liberty's campus were plugged-in activists, talking right over the average student's head.
At freshman convocation, Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan, the activist pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, who fought for what has been described as "conscientious capitalism" addressed the incoming class of 221: "The whites might run this country, but they don't own it," he told them.
The bakery also serves ice cream, a supreme joy in life for the former VP. Last year Cornell University officially recognized the former VP's great passion for the sweet treat by creating a Biden-themed ice cream from Cornell Dairy ahead of him speaking at Cornell University's convocation ceremony.
B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was met with raised fists and chants of "no justice, no peace" by protesters on Friday as he delivered the keynote address at Howard University's convocation, marking a rocky re-emergence into public life since he was fired by President Trump in May.
It will be a rare convocation of some of the world's best companies: City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theater, the Mariinsky, Miami City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet, which was in residence at City Center for about 30 years.
In 2013, when the transcript of George Saunders' convocation speech at Syracuse University was put on The Times's 's website, it and its galvanizing humility ("What I regret most in life are failures of kindness") were soon shared more than a million times, and published as a book a year later.
"For me, Reform Judaism has always symbolized what I consider to be the best of Judaism — firmly rooted in our tradition, yet egalitarian, inclusive of patrilineal Jews and intermarried families, welcoming to the L.G.B.T. community, politically active, and respectful of other faiths and ideologies," he said at his inauguration convocation.
" His statement at this year's New York Times Art for Tomorrow Conference in Doha, Qatar, in many ways summed up the theme — sometimes explicit but often unsaid — that coursed through the third annual convocation of artists, collectors, curators, museum directors, public officials and others: "Boundaries, Identity and the Public Realm.
World Science Festival (through Sunday) This annual convocation of science's great minds and their admirers continues this weekend with the return of "Light Falls: Space, Time and an Obsession of Einstein," a popular theatrical production from last year that includes the scientist and author Brian Greene among its performers (Friday at 1033 p.m.
" Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.: With more concealed-carry permits, we could end those Muslims Falwell told students during the university's convocation in December, following the San Bernardino, California, attacks, "If more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in and killed them.
Cornell University revealed the name of its newest ice cream flavor Thursday in honor of former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE's upcoming convocation speech at the university.
If you've been thinking about Biden every day, imagining yourselves clinging to his pant leg, sobbing "COME BACK, UNCLE JOE, WE MISS YOU" into his dress socks, remember that he's still out there, making appearances at fundraisers, sending adorable tweets about his wife, and, on May 27, giving the convocation address at Cornell University.
Every year, to mark the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — that yearly convocation of the world's richest and most self-important plutocrats — Oxfam puts out a statement that "the top [X] people have the same amount of wealth as the bottom" half, as the Center for Global Development's Maya Forstater and Vijaya Ramachandran once generalized it.

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