What's the difference between rally and summon?

Rally


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  • (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  • (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
  • (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
  • (n.) A political mass meeting.
  • (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
  • (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
  • (n.) Good-humored raillery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (2) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (3) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
  • (4) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
  • (5) However, financial markets seem unconcerned: 10-year gilts have rallied since the statement.
  • (6) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
  • (7) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
  • (8) Souweine said the group hoped to expand to New Hampshire, where Romney plans to hold his final rally on Monday, or to North Carolina.
  • (9) The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A mass rally on the fourth day after the election.
  • (11) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
  • (12) An image depicting the British prime minister, David Cameron, is held by a protester during a rally at the former test drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources in Balcombe.
  • (13) You literally never see that at political rallies, though obviously at Tea Party ones they are there all the time."
  • (14) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.
  • (15) Despite a lack of traditional campaign organization, a mix of big rallies and constant appearances on cable news helped Trump defeat what had been described as the strongest field in Republican history.
  • (16) On Tuesday, Romney had one event, a speech to the National Guard Association convention in Reno, Nev. And on the day before that, another single rally, in Mansfield, Ohio.
  • (17) A similar rally in 2007 is widely credited with spurring on Malaysia's opposition movement, which won a landslide victory in the 2008 elections.
  • (18) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
  • (19) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
  • (20) It stated that, at the Place du Canada rally, prime minister Pierre Trudeau pleaded with Quebecers to vote no.

Summon


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.
  • (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
  • (2) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
  • (3) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (4) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
  • (5) Chelsea must summon a response at Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, trying to blot out the memory of the lead that was surrendered so wastefully here.
  • (6) RPC wrote back the next day saying Ashley was in the US and complained that the official had mentioned the prospect of a formal summons for Ashley: “Raising the spectre of a summons, in circumstances where our client has already volunteered the chairman as a witness to assist the committee and we are now liaising over availability, is, in our client’s view, inappropriate.” In the email, RPC said Hellawell was no longer available on 4 March but was now free on 25 March.
  • (7) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
  • (8) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
  • (9) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (10) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (11) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, is anticipating a Football Association summons after Saturday’s loss to Southampton .
  • (12) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
  • (13) The shooting down of the plane comes the day after Turkey called for a UN security council meeting to discuss Russian actions in Syria, following the summoning of the Russian ambassador in Ankara to hear a protest over air attacks on Turkmen villages.
  • (14) So why is a CEO such as Marissa Mayer summoning Yahoo staff back into the office ?
  • (15) Around 400 attended court on Friday, most of them responding to a court summons for the first time, many of them anxious and angry about the process.
  • (16) In addition, BBC executives and trustees were summoned by parliamentary committees more than once a month.
  • (17) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
  • (18) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
  • (19) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (20) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.