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Sentence Examples The Republicans next held a national convention in Philadelphia in 1900, and again they prepared to renominate a popular president. At a convention though, dozens and dozens of folks I barely know say howdy to me and I start getting them confused with those I do know. Flouting of convention can provoke conflict which is just as sharp as that caused by non-observance of laws. The convention of extralegality for a just cause antedates the advent of hard-boiled heroes. Those who ventured outside the convention halls to enjoy the warm weather and the view of Vancouver's scenic waterfront heard the drums. In fact the firm management of the Republican convention had journalists breathless for lack of stories not fed to them by the machine. Will it reflect a diverse convention full of unions rejuvenated by newly organized workers? If we said we're going to the convention we probably ought to go, at least for a while. Each was also to imagine itself unbound by convention or costs, beats or bosses. Friends of the Earth is calling for a global convention on corporate accountability. This maneuver served only to strengthen our resolve and we booked a meeting room in a hotel adjacent to the convention site. Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging. In order to explore and expand, one must disregard convention and conformity. At a convention noted less for its retail bleakness than its product sameness. And now the choice of New York City for the Republican national convention site is being questioned within the party itself. This is a group that eschews convention and pushes the boundaries just about as far out as they can, with mostly fascinating results. In those days, outdoor plumbing was the convention and the families' outhouse stood adjacent to the house. Population geneticists dismiss such gene frequencies by convention and so count digit number as having no heritability. A national party convention of all these delegates then takes place in the summer to decide the presidential candidate. The convention provides for the utilization of load lines on the sides of ships. Show More Sentences A four-day convention built around unity and like-mindedness does present certain artistic problems. The Constitution Party held its national convention last week in Valley Forge. It is no state secret that the selection convention in Castlebar was somewhat unusual to say the least. There is a romantic side to our nature which rejects convention and reaches for the stars. What would happen to my reporting if I wore out some shoe leather in the convention hallways or out on the streets? It's important, I thought, to have awkward hugs at any convention and I am an extremely awkward hugger. A spokesman for the Department of Justice said the convention was an important instrument in combating transnational crime. It is also essential that any such agreement is consistent with the European convention on human rights. And it is not clear that he will be sailing into the summer convention with a great deal of brag and bounce. Parking at the convention stinks but there's an excellent shuttle bus system which is explained on this page of the con website. For example, consider attending a course or convention offered by a food service vendor or supplier. This is nonsense, because time is a man-made convention based on the movement of the earth about its axis and orbit around the sun. Despite its monstrous, carceral appearance, the convention centre is in fact only modestly sized by other cities' standards. This case is classy enough for the board room and geeky enough to make your convention contacts squee gleefully. The march quickly fell apart, not even making it to the heavily barricaded convention centre where delegates were staying. A week-long medical convention is being held in an Argentinian hotel well past its prime. Savvy out-of-towners make a point to escape the fetid air of the casinos and the convention halls by touring the Red Rock Canyon. The issue was dropped from the convention itself because some cosignatories opposed a ban. Signatories to the convention agree to institute the necessary legislation to prevent abusers of power from reaping the rewards of corruption. The convention received a good deal of coverage at the time, but no lasting impact has been felt. Show More Sentences Moore spent much of the week sitting next to Jimmy Carter in a private part of the convention centre's dress circle. Once again, an army of talk radio hosts have descended on a political convention there to inform, entertain, hopefully not bloviate. It is difficult to spoof a convention when the convention itself is so awful it seems a spoof unto itself. Here convention delegates unanimously rejected the idea of a bracero program in their industry. He looks like a Shriner at a convention center and I almost don't want to show you because the minute I start looking I laugh hysterically. I've never gone to a convention and not found some piece of news to arrest our attention. He wrote Ted Kennedy's famous speech at the 1980 Democratic convention when Kennedy conceded defeat to Jimmy Carter. Especially when the convention itself will be nothing but a bunch of boring windbags telling lie after lie. The convention and the agreement containing the amendments remain pending in this committee. I asked myself this question three years ago when I attended my first convention during my junior year of college. I had convention dreams last night, with lots of references to Auckland Armageddon, esp a certain winner of the cosplay awards. Representatives of the airline industry have been summoned to an annual convention of pear-shaped men in August. I haven't been following the Democratic convention in Boston very closely yet. Hundreds of companies and trade associations are footing the bill for after-hours events listed on the convention calendar. I quickly found cosplay is very addictive, and have done it at every convention since. Even those Third World countries that grow tobacco signed the convention on tobacco control. Would we not have to look to the treaty or convention upon which the legislation is based? The convention allows for lawful detention of children for the shortest possible period of time and as a matter of last resort. It was the first convention to reach the general public live by radio broadcast. Sharpton's pointed remarks brought the enormous convention crowd up for several standing ovations. Show More Sentences And finally, I loved doing the X-Men cybercast for Fox, even if no one at the convention got to participate. Now more than ever, I'm happy to be a Brooklyn resident, away from the madhouse this convention has caused. The modern political convention is a tightly scripted event with no surprises. The top advice from seasoned conventioneers is to pre-register for the convention so you can receive and digest the program beforehand. Ultimately it does not sound a very easy task, but we believe the convention ushered in a new spirit and a new thought. The normal convention of italicisation of journal names and book titles should be adopted. The woman who led the capitalist counter-revolution in Poland is to address an international business convention near Harrogate. When the convention met at Philadelphia we had a government of concurrent powers, and their object was to get rid of it. The convention will publish periodicals and establish a Web site to promote distant and Internet educational programs. In 1997, a convention established standards to combat international bribery, to which more than thirty countries agreed. When the Democratic Party held its national convention in July, his renomination was assured, but there were still decisions to be made. The convention will oblige signatories, including Ireland, to enact new legislation to bring the provisions into effect. But that doesn't explain Howard's continued refusal to do so or his barefaced and misleading claim that the convention doesn't require it. That's merely a convention I decided upon as a means of differentiating humans from other races. Exxon and Shell say if we don't do something quick the 2004 convention sponsorship deal is off. It is not only a matter of broad-shoulders and buxomness, but a matter of convention and stereotype. The convention of the lip sync begins to acquaint audiences somewhat with its acceptability. Maria resisted convention by joining an Anglican sisterhood, and Christina, who never married, became the finest poet of the Tractarian movement. In tribally run district courts and within families, decisions that rule women's lives are a matter of obedience, convention and saving face. Anarchism, like Coltrane, is the rational, syllogistic, positive rejection of convention and unjust orthodoxy. Show More Sentences The Republican Party will hold its convention in New York in early September, literally a stone's throw from Ground Zero. The Congress has to decide its own convention with the Joint Committee on Taxation. The party is expected to re-convene a selection convention inside the next month. With the emergence of organized political parties, the holding of a national party convention to select presidential candidates developed. Shortly after the convention convened, Governor Edmund Randolph presented the Virginia Plan that called for radical reforms. Utah nominates candidates for federal office at a state convention of approximately 1,500 delegates per congressional district. Intended for international conferences, the convention centre will also have a business centre, a media console and an exclusive resource centre. They celebrated a man who was scornful of polite convention and showed little interest in being embraced by the great and good. Hardly had he indicated his desire, when a few parties approached him requesting that he hold a party convention in Kerala in late September. Like the Scottish Nationalists, the SSP are breaching the convention of leaving the Speaker's seat uncontested. Leaflets advertising the renegade symposium were distributed to convention delegates by symposiasts and their supporters. There are many places where photography is prohibited by law, many other places where it is prohibited by social convention and human decency. Downtown's newest hotel sports great art, moderne styling, 282 luxe rooms, and a rooftop pool, all a stone's throw from the convention center. Is that measure in this bill consistent with the convention that the Government signed on 16 June? The fact that her looks go against the convention seems to work in her favour. The convention was a great social weekend for grown-ups and children alike. Fist fights ensued before the convention closed, with Eisenhower as the nominee. Schlusser has chosen a deliberately anarchic style for the story, subverting theatrical convention for effect. We undertake this not in homage to convention or tradition, but in service to the principles of a unitive and harmonious existence. There still is a peculiar elusiveness to Kerry that makes it difficult for convention toastmasters to know exactly what to praise. Show More Sentences It is more or less a given, by convention if not by conviction, that one must have a biblical text for a sermon. Dinners at the convention hotel, especially the closing banquet, are more formal. At the end of its first two nights, the Republican convention is a mix of tolerance voiced and intolerance unvoiced. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the most widely accepted international convention in human history. So the convention will only work if someone has already built a time machine. The actual content of his speech was pretty close to zero, but that's fine for a convention keynote. And it would be a setback for efforts just getting underway in the United Nations to draft a global convention banning reproductive cloning. Rejecting extremist Federalist demands for resistance, nullification, and disunion, the convention pursued a moderate course. It's their turn to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of a national political convention as Democrats gather in Los Angeles this week. Expect more information about the 2005 convention through snail mail, e-mail, and the summer issue of The Masthead. At one point in the convention center, I was able to connect to BroadbandAccess when I could not glom on to a Wi-Fi network. Yet, the Baptist convention there brings Baptists together for evangelism and witness. It is said that this kind of convention is getting less important in modern China. This convention dealt with issues of sustainable fishery catches and conservation of both aquatic species and habitats. Held in San Francisco, this was the first time a major party's national convention took place west of the Rocky Mountains. The unknown disease attacked over 200 people gathered for an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The numbers reported in this publication generally reflect the convention practised by the industry. An historic city that has struggled to boost its ailing economy, it must polish its reputation as a tourist and convention centre. Luckily there were plenty of other sideshows around the convention halls to cheer spirits and exorcise such defeatist sentiments. The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk. Show More Sentences All three are expected to be ratified unanimously at the party convention on the 16th November. And in any event the audiences in 1602 were no doubt so used to the convention of female parts being played by men that they barely noticed it. The people who are running the convention have created four days of acute orchestration designed to get maximum response. In its metamorphosis from novella to film, it wisely maintains the convention of narration, but unwisely pushes it to the wayside. Its composition, its time of meeting, its powers, are all regulated by convention and usage, not by law. A left challenge to New Labour was launched at a vibrant convention of the left in the Brent East constituency last week. He had a streak of fundamental decency that went far beyond simply observing the convention of the day and I loved him for it. This production makes fun of this corny stage convention by not even trying to cast actors who look similar. The network plans gavel-to-gavel coverage from the convention floor, as it has in the past. So far, the big-ticket speeches at the Republican convention have dealt almost exclusively with foreign policy and the war on terrorism. New Zealand is to present its next periodic report on compliance with the UN convention in September this year. They violate the convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The truth is, disappointments and outright failure mark the real world of publicly financed convention centers, stadiums, and hotels. It appears that it will be a quite convention with none of the top positions been contested. Security, at unprecedented levels, ran smoothly throughout the convention week. I waited until the next con and let the convention officials tell him how it would henceforth be. The Government promised over six years ago to sign the International Labour Organisation's convention on homeworkers' rights. On a choropleth map, cartographic convention assigns the darkest color to the highest value. In every case, hindsight suggested that the threat of an actual nominating convention had always been more apparent than real. The casino resort also features three ballrooms and 30 meeting rooms with a total of 80,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. Show More Sentences The purpose of the convention is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutant chemicals. At the Democratic national convention last week, big business put on its biggest party at a political event. Almost every other Illinoisan who ran for the presidency was nominated at a convention in Chicago. But most took photographs in conventional poses, the convention being an important part of the record. The minister said that the government is preparing a national convention in the country to support the reconciliation process in the country. At the national convention two years ago, however, the leaders hesitated in going all the way in this direction. Virginia unionists controlled the state secession convention from its opening in February into the early days of April. So I was already wondering, as this is one of the UK's very last mutuals, whether the time is right for me to break with convention and vote. Kamikawa finds herself among a growing group of Japanese public officials who buck the convention of button-down politics. In the end however convention spoke, and the delegates delivered their verdict. The present study examined the role of the convention in German to capitalize the initial letters of nouns. A generation ago, women defied convention by burning bras and moving in with boyfriends. Finally, a naval convention was signed in which the nine powers agreed not to build capital ships for ten years. As the convention concluded, a revivalist preacher conducted a benediction. Give them little red fezes and it would look like a Shriners convention out there. The convention of ministerial responsibility is not enforced by the judiciary. But this is no awayday for MPs, because in some sense the convention is a challenge to a parliament. Every Western democracy is signed up to the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees. As a whole, however, the willingness to defy convention in terms of their status as an indie pop group, is a large step forward for the band. Let us go through an international conference to reach a convention in the United Nations. Show More Sentences This marked a notable break with tradition as the convention was always held in Dunmore before this. In order to begin taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the convention the state of the marine environment must be assessed. Unlike a national convention, the city convention is less a coronation and more an opportunity for candidates to make themselves heard. The Southern Baptists have a convention every year, where they gather from around the country. Another is the United Nations convention on the rights of the child, which restricts recruitment of children into the armed forces. A resolution that will be discussed at the party's convention this weekend calls on the province to drop the British ensign from its flag. There is no colorable reading of the convention under which it would apply to those individuals, as several federal courts have held. Pale-skinned performance artists in skinny black shirts roamed the convention center. Victoria has already organised for a professional artist to visit her convention to demonstrate how to customise a pony. The convention was forced to deal with several critical issues within the black community. Accordingly, instead of mass media's big bulge of consensus and convention and conformity in the middle, the spectrum gets filled with all kinds of hinky stuff. Great efforts were made by the corruptionists of the district to prevent his re-nomination, but when the convention met he received the votes of all but two counties. In 1968, at the ripe age of 14, I was at the Miami convention carrying my Rockefeller sign on the convention floor. Do you have a convention they are all going to and have it closer to the story line that was in Magic Mike? A duty-free shop, a convention hall, a hotel, a long-stay housing estate and a variety of other tourist and entertainment businesses would all be housed in the complex. Well, apparently there was some sort of cosplay convention nearby, because there were a bunch of people in odd costumes wandering in the area, munching cheeseburgers. And the closer the convention came, the more skittish residents grew. Leading officials of the Democratic Party are using the convention to wine and dine large donors and solicit more funds for the final months of the campaign. I was buying a book from a vendor in a crowded, fluorescent-lit convention center. Amongst other things, Australia is signatory to a convention which actually requires Australia to apply human rights equally in a non-discriminatory way. Show More Sentences Leo and his friends also took the spinthariscope to an out-of-town astronomers convention and advertised that they had developed an optical system that could penetrate clouds. He moved to reassure the convention that the government was working to solve crises in Africa that ultimately impacted on confidence in the local economy. In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage. I got some negative feedback for my unenthralled response to Chris Christie's convention speech. For all the preparation cajoling, nose counting, bulk mailing, and robo calling the delegates the convention came down to a couple of hours of controlled chaos. The process of selecting presidential nominees has undergone a fundamental change over the past three decades even though the national nominating convention has remained essentially unchanged. In this drop-ceiling convention room, stacking chairs and folding banquet tables on a stage where so many Shriners have auctioned fruit cakes for burn victims. The United States restricted the use of incendiaries like white phosphorus after Vietnam, and in 1983, an international convention banned its use against civilians. It is unnecessary to speculate whether the ejusdem generis rule ought to be applied to the wording of an international convention having the force of law in this country. In a convention that extends to infinity the rationalized powers of human attention, no atrocity need remain unexplained, no mystery unsolved, no mistake unrectified. You can buy scale models of old tankers in the convention hall, too. These latter qualities are often smothered by social convention and cultural prejudice which converge to constrain us from realising our full potential. In other words, the works all draw inspiration from nature and biomorphic shapes, representing a widespread artistic convention of the World War II and post-war period. He talks about attending the dum-dum convention in August, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tarzan. However, the convention itself makes it clear that it applies to all situations in which a subject population comes under the authority of a foreign occupier. Participants got hip to this and more at Tease-O-Rama 2002, the second annual national convention devoted to reviving burlesque, go-go dancing, and vaudeville. So many of the delegates who are coming to the convention are unbound delegates. There are some early clues that the convention speakers will communicate a constellation of diversity. CamelCase is the original wiki convention for creating hyperlinks. With exhaustive detail, it patiently recreates an entire society, showing the webwork of behavior and convention that obstructs and defeats our best intentions. Show More Sentences His announcement made at the convention to select candidates for that ballot brings the curtain down on a political career stretching back to the sixties. He got a primetime speaking slot at the convention and was named a co-chair of the Romney campaign. This typically will give you access to the convention events and mixers. Howard Fineman, looking camera-ready as usual, wandered the convention hall looking for swag. When there is separation from the familiar, when there is escape from the habitual, rules of social convention are not enforceable with the same efficacy as at home. The first lady thrilled the convention with a speech that melded politics and the personal. So the Democratic gathering is the second convention to be bedeviled by bad weather. When those enemies are supposed to represent real people, however, this convention seems horribly misrepresentative to the point of being offensive. I also find it kind of hard to believe that the conference and convention industry listens that attentively to the president. But, and there is the rub, every member of the Cabinet is expected by acceptable social convention to then go out and promote and defend what has been pronounced. They customarily provided a plan or plot summary of the new offering, a convention that made the repetitive and derivative nature of modern playwriting all the more obvious. The palace is a place where, for all the laudible efforts at modernization and innovation, convention is still king. As a group we then traveled to Rosita, where we spoke to a convention of Moravian pastors before heading to the Rio Prinzapolka, where we met up with Ivonne. The concept of fair competition then, is a global convention which both the multinational players and localised business entities are aware of and need to adhere to. They are are typically systemless scenarios designed for convention play. With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso. She raised her lips and eyebrows in a coy pout that I couldn't resist, so I broke all known social convention and filled her martini glass with scotch. Atheists are holding their annual convention in Salt Lake City, but things have been surprisingly cordial. Really, though, the American Atheist convention in Salt Lake City is not a clash of opposites. Therefore, following the convention used by Rewcastle, the immobile, unified lacertilian crus-astragalocalcaneum will be referred to here as simply the crus. Show More Sentences She arrived at the convention wearing a quadruple strand of pearls and significant diamond studs. The two-week convention caravan is now at rest, and Tampa and Charlotte are in the rear-view mirror. The convention dictates that there must be a spanner in the works of an otherwise successful relationship, and Kissing Jessica Stein is no different. But without question, Mr. Vander Zalm's re-entry into active politics at the party's Prince George convention instantly changed the political landscape in the province. That's why I'm speaking at the Log Cabin convention and couldn't be prouder to be doing so. The congress venue was a big, boxshaped convention centre by the sea known as the Kursaal, the kernel of which is a large amphitheatre used by symphony orchestras. After surveying the postgame punditry of the convention finale, I had to wonder if I was at the same event. The original objective of the Federalist Papers was to convince New Yorkers to elect to their state ratifying convention delegates who would support the Constitution. The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll. We bunked together at a history convention early in our careers. The Republican convention is set to cruise into town any day. There is no formal convention in any genre of literature that would make it either possible or desirable to portray it in all its constancy and repetitiveness. All right, Ann, this convention to be letter-perfect time wise. Yet to my unfurnished eyes, the early Tea Party folks looked like a convention of harmless, if fairly cranked-up Walmart greeters. For Ryan, this means sitting in a booth at the convention and proffering sexy photos of herself to male passersby. She said such a convention would be preferable to a constituent assembly, where members of the Senate and House of Representatives sit to propose amendments to the Charter. Yet their standard of living derives, not from their caring work, but from the social convention that family members share family resources on a more or less equal basis. And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry. After all, the Republican convention was chockablock with McCain doppelgangers. He rejects the convention of wearing white tie and tails, preferring to conduct in a loose, floppy shirt that better suits his loose, floppy style. Show More Sentences The image-makers who have created the modern political convention instinctively hate spontaneity, conflict and any other human element that they cannot control. Chapters and medical facilities wishing to display a poster should bring it to the convention center and affix it to the display board provided with materials they supply. But his lumbering lurch toward the Ted Cruz tin-foil-hat convention should instead be an object lesson for Republicans to come. Santorum has played along, saying the odds of a brokered convention are increasing. The age-old convention of the church wedding is on the wane. Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations. Lawyers will claim that the system is so corrupt that it breaches obligations under the European convention on human rights to hold free and fair elections. Four days of gavel-to-gavel convention watching have reminded me, a professional speaker, of the difference between bad, mediocre, good, and great speechifying. The RNC leased 450 buses to shuttle delegates between hotels as far as 30 miles away to the convention center. The crowd inside the convention center is very white, fairly old, and presumably decently rich. The award that by convention should have gone to the student with the highest grade went instead to the teacher's favorite. Who helps build convention centers and adjacent hotels so cities can attract convention business? The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe. Delegates to the Democratic convention in Boston, though, did not have to hide their Kerry buttons to avoid being assaulted, harassed, or misdirected by Republican protestors. The UK's ratification of the convention formally takes effect next month. The choice of the van, traditionally considered a vehicle for trapping women, amusingly turns the convention on its head. Around 6000 fellow airline professionals from around the world attended the convention and award ceremony, the largest event in the industry's calendar. Earlier this month, additional protection was given under this convention to the queen conch mollusk, a popular food item famous for its enormous pink shell. Last week I even gave a talk at a crop circle convention in Glastonbury. Inside the convention center, workmen walked the halls where, earlier in the day, world leaders paraded among their entourages. Show More Sentences The script's biggest flaw, however, is in breaking an ironclad convention of the genre and contradicting what's known about actual serial killers. King reminisced about his convention and was astounded at how little bad-blood lingered. The oblique back view of the cheval mirror in Boucher's picture evokes a convention with a long and venerable history in painter's self-portraits. Although the urge to live-blog the convention was strong, I resisted. Each city's convention and visitors bureau is offering a sampling of the best restaurants, entertainment hot spots, and cultural places for you and your family to enjoy. The convention only gains legitimacy when Washington agrees to not only attend it, but preside over it. But the political game has changed, the media business is more unforgiving, and the old gavel-to-gavel, backroom-dealing, anything-can-happen convention is a distant memory. A team of researchers in England is challenging that convention with a magnetic microcircuit that carries out simple but important steps in computation. The Second Hague Peace Conference adopted a convention establishing a new court of arbitral justice but could not agree on a procedure for appointing the judges. Planning officers were in the gun for a report to councillors on the company's plan to take some airspace to expand its convention centre that left out critical comments. It was accordingly agreed that this convention should request the London Committee of Correspondence to give the earliest intelligence of what passes in parliament. The convention of naming deconstructors by extending the constructor name with the suffix is really just a crude but simple way of associating a deconstructor with a constructor. Each girl's escort is responsible for her, at least for an evening, a convention that forces college boys to see themselves as protectors and to act chivalrously. Judging by the well-dressed canine and feline patrons at the convention center, it looks like Golden is not alone. And while there is no data to provide proof, it's quite likely that those bellying up to the bar are older than usual when a large convention or trade show is in town. Here those favoring the wealthy are following social convention and may even see themselves securing the benefaction of the patron for the church. Lauren Ashburn on how gauging the impact of a convention speech depends on where you sit. The Stalwarts had bolted the Red Gym and were holding a shadow convention to nominate their own candidates at the opera house. For example, the addition of a stem carries no essential meaning that requires a minim to last half as long as a semibreve, but convention dictates it. Protocol 2 did not amend the text of the convention as such, but stipulated that it was to be treated as an integral part of the text. Show More Sentences In Ireland, a convention had been called earlier in the year, and had already declared for Charles. A current convention on the Earth uses the opposite of the IRM as the basis for the International Date Line. Democrats Abroad holds seats on the DNC and sends a voting delegation to the quadrennial convention to nominate our presidential candidate. This new weekly comedy is an irreverent and lusty send-up of space adventure, ripping apart pop culture and sci-fi convention as only SCI FI can. The modern convention is to use the old calendar for the date and month while using the new for the year. It was originally called Ark but became Ark Raleigh, following the convention at the time by which the ship bore the name of its owner. But the AFCA, seeking more than just X's and O's, created the PDS for the annual convention in January. The convention set out its terms and William and Mary were proclaimed at Edinburgh on 11 April 1689, then had their coronation in London in May. However, certain types of legislation are required, either by constitutional convention or by law, to be introduced into a specific chamber. The opposing political party is deploying high profile speakers to counterprogram the convention with small rallies at nearby sites. The convention organisation itself creaked a little, but a good time was had by all. The room was double booked for a convention and a wedding in the same night. The Hague convention on adoption was somewhat of a disaster. Each of the winners was publicly recognized at the Wyoming Association of Municipalities convention in Gillette, Wyo. The convention also delivered a slap to the technocrats who have held the reins of government for more than a decade. The convention of driving on the left hand side of the road has been retained in much of the former empire. Graham attended the convention at the start but withdrew four days later when its support for William became evident. The Convention has several protocols, which amend the convention framework. The Lascelles Principles were an attempt to create a convention to cover similar situations, but have not been tested in practice. With few exceptions, the monarch is bound by constitutional convention to act on the advice of the Government. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of convention? Words that rhyme with convention What is the plural of convention? What is the adverb for convention? What is the adjective for convention? What is the noun for convention? Translations for convention Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words conventicle Convent convent convenor convening convenient to conventional conventionalised conventionalism conventionalist conventionalities conventionality 10-letter Words Starting With c co con conv conve conven convent conventi conventio