He has served repeatedly as a delegate to county conventions and has always refused to become a candidate for office, preferring that his public service shall be done as a private citizen.
In preparation for that event there were county conventions of both parties at Pomeroy, that of republicans on August 29th and that of democrats September 7th.
Far more than Mary I was accepting the conventions of our time.
The Queen's faction alleged that it was suspicious to Princes that subjects should assemble themselves and keep conventions without their knowledge.
Infinity of sea and sky bring an incredulity of the defined land, where strange human beings move under precise conventions to the tyranny of what is or is not done.
You have a heart, and you have no knowledge of the conventions of the game.
His mind had swept aside the littleconventions of men.
But what of her, the woman who believed in him, trusted in him against all evidence, the woman who had defied all conventions in coming to see him, the woman whom he had held to his heart, and whom he loved more than life?
Very fortunately, in some of the incidental passages it gets away from conventions and authorities, and enlarges in a modern good-tempered fashion on the vanities of the current time.
This truth to Nature, in virtue of which Chaucer is a classic, will be found to be limited in some of his works by conventions which are not always easy to understand.
The Confessio Amantis is one of the medieval works in which a number of differentconventions are used together.
Man's tendency towards leadership in love is not scientifically explained by any superficial assumption that established social conventions have repressed an original spontaneity of women.
Like the Moslem, he accepts many of the comforts and conventions of European life, but like him he rejects not a few of these that north of the Mediterranean are deemed indispensable.
I say to you--to the devil with your conventions and your laws--your prejudices and what not; this child is happy.
I could never have had you all to myself in any other place; foolish scruples and conventions would have crept in, and you would have run away from me, and I should have lost you in the big world.
These governors called conventions of delegates, who were elected by the former white voters of the respective States.
To accomplish this, the plan was to place all the seceding States under military governors, who should call new conventions to form State governments.
As we have noted, the method of nominating presidential candidates by means of popular conventions was fully established in 1840, and has continued uninterruptedly ever since.
And yet there have been many exciting scenes at the nominating conventions of the past, as there doubtless will be in many that are yet to come.
The courtly German love-songs passing by this name were affected by the conceits and conventions of the Provencal poetry upon which they were modelled.
It is expressed in custom, universal and established, and it is found in written form in the works of the Fathers, in the decrees of Councils, in the decretals of the popes, and in the concordats and conventions with secular sovereignties.
All Baha’i Communities free to conveneconventions will be also meeting this year during the Centenary celebrations.
Shoghi Effendi’s hope is that at such Conventions and gatherings the friends would present the teachings to persons otherwise inaccessible for individual contact.
In a general way, it appears that the Blackfoot show some individuality in the conventions of picture writing.
Indeed this is precisely what conventions seem to be—customs, procedures or orders that happen to become fixed.
By this term, we mean those conventionsby which deeds are recorded and accredited, with their social privileges and responsibilities.
The counterpart of this taboo does not prevail, since a man need not avoid his daughter-in-law, his association with her being governed by the conventions applying to his own daughters.
It seems proper to begin the discussion of our subject with those conventions directly associated with sexual activities.
I perceive now that it is an Art of conventions remote from anything that comes out of an inkpot, and of colours hard to control.
Mine was a fatal mistake,' Pharaoh Ahkenaton sighed in my ear,' I mistook the conventionsof life for the realities.
The raw fact of life is that mankind is just a little lower than the angels, and the conventions are based on that fact in order that men may become angels.
The frontier had its own conventions and prejudices, and New England was breaking its own cake of custom and proclaiming a new liberty at the very time he wrote.
The debates in their conventionsand the results embodied in the constitutions themselves tell the story of their political ideals.
During the past year parcel-post conventionshave been concluded with Barbados, the Bahamas, British Honduras, and Mexico, and are now under negotiation with all the Central and South American States.
The Colombian Government has expressed its willingness to negotiate conventions for the adjustment by arbitration of claims by foreign citizens arising out of the destruction of the city of Aspinwall by the insurrectionary forces.
Great Britain experienced a change of heart, and, although her own delegates had moved these articles, she refused to ratify them, when she ratified most of the other conventions on Nov.
The several Postal Conventions have been evidences of an international organization of the highest order.
No, it is The Hague Conventions to which we must look.
America stands also as the chief signatory of the great world conventions which have settled new rules for the conduct of war, to mitigate its horrors, especially for non-combatants.
A table showing the ratifications of conventions has been published by The World Peace Foundation, Boston.
Again in 1913 the German Secretary of State at a meeting of a Budget Committee of the Reichstag had declared that "Belgian neutrality is provided for by international conventions and Germany is determined to respect those conventions.
The sinking of the Lusitania was an act which outraged not only the existing conventions of the civilized world in regard to naval warfare, but the moral feelings of present civilized society.
We find that the appalling crime was committed contrary to international law and the conventions of all civilized nations.
The pre-existing conventions gave to a German vessel of war the right to destroy the Lusitania and her cargo, if it were impossible to carry her into port as a prize; but not to drown her passengers and crew.
This sending students at their most impressionable age to the Old World to absorb Old World conventions and prejudices is all wrong.
These societies held annualconventions for many years.
To Mexico the Executive is disposed to pursue a course conciliatory in its character and at the same time to render her the most ample justice by conventions and stipulations not inconsistent with the rights and dignity of the Government.
But since the emphatic approval of the scheme by the episcopal council of Wuerzburg, in 1848, the Catholic conventions have displayed a lively interest in the plan and have done all in their power to further its realization.
Beside, the conventions do not even meet at the most convenient point, but change their place of meeting every year.
In the Belgian congress the section of science and the press does not treat of the same subjects that occupy the attention of that section in the Catholic conventions in Germany.
The Belgium congresses are imitations of the Catholic conventions in Germany.
The scene at Aix-la-Chapelle was more imposing than any other that marked the sixteen general conventions of the Catholic societies in Germany.
The Belgian congresses differ in some respects from the Catholic conventions in Germany, for the latter are by no means so well attended as the former.
At Malines the foreigners were well represented; in the German conventions but few make their appearance.
The Catholic general conventions will not alter their character in order to busy themselves with purely scientific concerns; in short, it cannot become a congress of learned men, nor a substitute for such a congress.
These conventions have always upheld the claims of Christian art.
The Catholic Congresses in Belgium are of more recent date than the general conventions of all Catholic societies in Germany.
At our Catholic conventions there were no meetings of journalists exclusively.
Since 1848 he distinguished himself at almost all the general conventions by his activity and the zeal he displayed in furthering every Catholic enterprise.
Actively co-operating with this {223} movement, the Catholic conventions of Germany and Belgium have achieved many desirable results.
Among the most regular members of the Catholic conventions is Dr.
If I had not ignored certain conventions I wouldn't be crying over spilled milk now.
At present, this Court feels its importance, and the cabinet of Versailles has points of a nature so much more interesting to carry, that it takes little notice of the breach of conventions actually subsisting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conventions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ceremony; code; protocol
