"summon" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Presidents have frequently summoned Congress into "extra" or "special" sessions, but they have never exercised the power to adjourn Congress.
- Mr. Clinton summoned Congress and the country to support a package of tax breaks intended to help middle-class families care for young children, send them to college or technical school, and plan for retirement and life's biggest and most important expenses, like buying a first home.
- W.G. had promptly summoned Congress into a special session two weeks before December 4, when the regular winter session began.
- But when parliament met later in the day to summon Congress formally, Mr Khasbulatov for the second time in three days stepped back from delivering the final stroke.
- In parliament a senior deputy urged his colleagues to give Mr Yeltsin a chance to reconsider before summoning Congress.
- He has also threatened to summon Congress immediately after the voting, presumably to seek new ways of thwarting the President.
- McKinley first took his congressional seat in October 1877, when President Hayes summoned Congress into special session.
- For example, several senators have joined Senator Bob Kerrey, Democrat of Nebraska, in calling on the President to summon Congress to a 10-day special session to find more spending cuts.
- President Franklin Roosevelt summoned Congress, which voted to declare war that same day.
- By law, his departure left the president of the Senate, Ramón Puerta, as acting president for the second time in 10 days, with the obligation to summon Congress to a special session by Wednesday to select yet another new president.
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