Convened by the Republican National Committee, the stated purpose of the convocation is to nominate an official candidate in an upcoming U. S. presidential election, and to adopt the party platform and rules for the election cycle.

Convened in Fayette, New York, it was presided over by Joseph Smith Jr.

, the Tribunal continues in existence but was described by the Council on Tribunals in 2006 as " Rarely Convened / Moribund ".

Convened by the National Council on Science and the Environment and University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, the group met to respond to the call by the UN General Assembly for a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ( 2005 through 2014 ) and to consider specifically:

Convened in Montgomery, Alabama, the Convention organized a provisional government for the Confederacy and created the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

* 1919 ( April 14 ~ 16 ): Convened the First Korean Congress in Philadelphia after receiving the news of nationwide resistance in Korea.

The Committees of Correspondence used to coordinate activities were revived between 1772 and 1774 in response to a variety of controversial and unpopular affairs, and the colonies that met at the 1774 First Continental Congress established a non-importation agreement known as the Continental Association in response to Parliamentary passage of the Intolerable Acts.

On October 21, 1774, the First Continental Congress, meeting to craft a united response to the Intolerable Acts, resolved to address letters to the populations of Quebec, St. John's Island, Nova Scotia, Georgia, East Florida and West Florida, all being colonies that were not represented by delegates in the Congress.

Despite significant political differences and disagreements between the Thirteen Colonies, tensions occasioned by the harsh Parliamentary response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party prompted the calling of the First Continental Congress, which produced a united response to the Intolerable Acts of 1774.

This was the first of the so-called Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts as they were called by the colonists, passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.

It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts ( also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans ) by the British Parliament.

These allowed communities to formally communicate with each other, raise awareness of incidents occurring elsewhere, and to coordinate actions ; as such, they became instrumental in managing the colonial response to enforcement of the Tea Act, the Intolerable Acts, and other unpopular British colonial legislation.

General Thomas Gage, who had become the military governor of Massachusetts in May 1774, was charged with enforcement of the highly unpopular Intolerable Acts, which British Parliament had passed in response to the Boston Tea Party.

In response to the Tea Party and other protests, Parliament enacted the Intolerable Acts to punish the colonies.

In response to the Intolerable Acts, which had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party, the First Continental Congress met at Carpenters ' Hall in Philadelphia from September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774.

In 1769 the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the Governor in response to its actions against the Townshend Acts.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

In response, the government passed the Six Acts, measures that were designed to quell further political agitation.

( This letter, adopted in response to the 1767 Townshend Acts, called for united colonial action against the acts.

The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, which eventually led to World War II.

Congress refused membership in the League of Nations, and in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, the gradually more restrictive Neutrality Acts were passed, which were intended to prevent the U. S. from supporting either side in a war.

The Dutch response was divided ; the moderate States of Holland tried to appease the English ; but when the negotiations failed and the Navigation Acts were adopted the ferocious Orangist faction became more powerful, and the States General passed a resolution which would allow the Dutch war fleet, to be tripled in size, to protect Dutch interest over the areas in question.

The First Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, to coordinate a colonial response to the Port Act and the other Coercive Acts.

Early actions turned the colony's populists against him, and he handled poorly the popular outrage to first the Stamp Act and later the Townshend Acts, requesting the presence of British Army troops in response to protests in 1768.

Although Wentworth was successful in keeping New Hampshire from implementing harsh boycotts in response to the Townshend Acts, he was clearly troubled by both colonial resistance to Parliamentary acts and by the introduction of troops into Boston in 1768.

This response, described as " The Revolution of 1559 ", was set out in two Acts of the Parliament of England.

The most influential colonial response to the Townshend Acts was a series of twelve essays by John Dickinson entitled " Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania ", which began appearing in December 1767.

On May 13, 1774, the Boston Town Meeting, with Samuel Adams acting as moderator, passed a resolution that called for an economic boycott in response to the Boston Port Act, one of the Coercive Acts.

The First Continental Congress was convened at Carpenters ' Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, to coordinate a response to the Coercive Acts.

In response Parran and his deputies rewrote the statutes underlying PHS operations-the Public Health Service Acts of 1943 and 1944-establishing a four-bureau structure that would remain in place through 1967, and deftly arranged for the transfer of wartime research contracts from the Office of Scientific Research and Development, creating an extramural grants program for NIH.

It is also found in the Acts of Paul, and was framed as Paul's response to the Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul.

The personal liberty laws were a series of laws passed by several U. S. states in the North in response to the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in 1986 in response to their concerns.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

In response, Congress passed the False Claims Act on March 2, 1863,.

Ireland also passed legislation in response to the EU directive with the effective date being 31 December 1993.

In response to the coup, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 841 imposing international sanctions and an arms embargo on Haiti.

In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creating of " smokeless zones " where the use of " smokeless " fuels was required ( this was at a time when most households still used open fires ); the Act was effective.

Following the Alvensleben Convention of 1863, the House of Deputies passed a resolution declaring that it could no longer come to terms with Bismarck ; in response, the King dissolved the Diet, accusing it of trying to obtain unconstitutional control over the ministry.

Similarly, a response of 2 Diamonds indicates less than 8 hcps and should usually be passed.

This section was also in response to the Black Codes that southern states had passed in the wake of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

U-M and other organizations were granted a stay from implementation of the passed proposal soon after that election, and this has allowed time for proponents of affirmative action to decide legal and constitutional options in response to the election results.

In response, on May 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and Richard Henry Lee, calling on colonies without a " government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs " to adopt new governments.

In response, several vaccine makers stopped production, which the US government believed could be a threat to public health, so laws were passed to shield makers from liabilities stemming from vaccine injury claims.

In response to the Supreme Court decision, the House of Representatives passed H. R.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

* February 28 – The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.

While many outpatient commitment laws have been passed in response to violent acts committed by people with mental illness, most proponents involved in the outpatient commitment debate base their arguments on the quality of life and cost associated with untreated mental illness and " revolving door patients " who experience a cycle of hospitalization, treatment and stabilization, release, and decompensation.

In response, the Italian government finally offered investigators the backing they needed, and Pio La Torre's law was passed 10 days later.

As a response to Glyndŵr's rebellion, the English parliament passed the Penal Laws in 1402.