What's the difference between convene and reconvene?
Convene
Definition:
(v. i.) To come together; to meet; to unite.
(v. i.) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
(v. t.) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
(v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(2) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
(3) The report of a panel convened by Save the Children and chaired by an independent expert from Public Health England says there is no conclusive evidence as to how Cafferkey was infected, but it points to the difference between her equipment and that of other volunteers.
(4) The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus , with one of its scientists estimating there there could be 3m-4m Zika infections in the Americas over the next year.
(5) The conference was convened by the Prince of Wales, who has set up a working group to find ways of funding forest protection.
(6) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
(7) A verification of the epidemiological material, convened according to a common programme and the method of identification was made in separate districts of Ivanovo and the Andizhan Region.
(8) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
(9) The case, which highlighted the ultimate power of commanders as "convening authorities" to nullify a conviction by a military jury, became a focus of last month's Senate hearing on military sexual assault .
(10) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(11) Addressing the World Economic Forum's 2006 panel, which was convened to consider global catastrophes, he gave this advice: "A great leader acts in awareness of the big picture and accepts responsibility for the long-term consequences of the policies he or she pursues.
(12) On 9 September, just two days after Stapel was suspended, the university convened an ad-hoc investigative committee of current and former faculty.
(13) Medical Research Council, Academy of Finland convened a Consensus Development Conference on Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease on April 24-26, 1989.
(14) An interdisciplinary task force was convened to design and implement the transfer center, requiring two months from conception to implementation.
(15) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
(16) When the IPCC took over the investigation, a meeting was convened with the family and City of London police.
(17) His intervention came on the day that the 115th Congress convened, with Republicans in control of both chambers, hoping that the incoming president will prove willing to sign long-planned bills into law.
(18) The Biological Stain Commission-sponsored workshop was convened to address the following issues: a manufacturers' testing program for probity of commercial antibodies, development of a manual for performance criteria and quality control assurance procedures, standardization of package inserts, standardization of information provided in the Materials and Methods sections of publications, establishment of a reagent and procedure clearing house, study of the effects of different fixation regimes on tissue antigens, and investigation of the environmental conditions needed for antigen-antibody interaction.
(19) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(20) You know, there has been talk about "should we convene a conversation on race".
Reconvene
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each time it reconvened, Morsi made a further speech.
(2) Reconvening the hearing weeks later, Walker said the cause of death was uncertain.
(3) Tuesday’s horrific chemical attack was a war crime which requires urgent independent UN investigation and those responsible must be held to account.” Corbyn said there was a need to “urgently reconvene the Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict”.
(4) He said talks would reconvene later and a decision was expected in the next 24 to 36 hours.
(5) – video The challenge for Clinton was always going to be reconvening the broad coalition of millennials, college-educated voters and minorities that twice helped elect Obama.
(6) He also told reporters that the Bundestag could vote on the Greek programme on November 30 – four days after the Eurogroup is due to reconvene.
(7) It is hard to imagine a realistic scenario in which governments lose the capacity for total surveillance and drone strikes; in which billionaires forget how to manipulate public opinion; in which a broken EU reconvenes; in which climate breakdown unhappens, species return from extinction and the soil comes back to the land.
(8) As a step towards the fulfilment of the right to health, drug use and possession should be decriminalised and de-penalised alongside increased investment in treatment, education and other interventions …” The letter, dated Monday 7 December, is addressed to the executive director of the UN office on drugs and crime, Yury Fedotov, but it was mentioned to delegates at the reconvened 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which began on Wednesday morning in Vienna.
(9) The Lawrence family's solicitor, Imran Khan, said it would be unsuitable for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to investigate the issue, and called for the inquiry to be reconvened.
(10) Each time it reconvened, Morsi made a further speech – speaking aloud four times in total.
(11) The finance ministers are expected to reconvene on Saturday for further talks as the crisis goes to the wire.
(12) Olli Rehn told the European parliament: I trust everyone will reconvene in Brussels on Monday with the necessary constructive spirit, and move beyond the detrimental mindset of red lines.
(13) But when the grand jury reconvenes next year it should issue a wide-ranging indictment – and it should be sent to all of us in the United States.
(14) We have now asked Acas to reconvene talks in the hope the BMA will return to sensible negotiations.” Representatives from the BMA, NHS Employers and the Department of Health have been locked in talks to find a settlement over a new contract since mid-September.
(15) When the Scottish parliament was "reconvened" in 1999, it was as though a keystone was being placed in an already existing arch of state institutions, ranging from distinctive legal and education systems, to the Kirk , financial bodies, a highly developed press and a mature government administration.
(16) The summit will reconvene on Friday, without May, as the 27 leaders look to the future of the EU without Britain.
(17) The summit will reconvene at 10am on Friday as an informal European council.
(18) However, as members of the group, such as Yorke , Jonny Greenwood and Selway - who is touring his new album Weatherhouse throughout February - have been ensconced in various solo ventures, it was uncertain whether the band would have time to reconvene for a Radiohead album.
(19) He called on Brokenshire to create more “space” to reconvene a fresh round of talks.
(20) He also said he had spoken to Quincy Jones to help reconvene the American artists, and had written to David Bowie to ask him to introduce the video as he did in the 1984 version.