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Example sentences for "national convention"

  • Rights of Man," while relying on the popular "sovereignty" fiction for getting a national convention, contained a careful definition of representative government.

  • Hussey of East Orange held a meeting in her park to hear the reports of the four delegates who attended the national convention at Minneapolis.

  • Then and there she decided that the most important work before Louisiana suffragists was to bring this conservative State under the influence of a national convention.

  • With Miss Williams she attended the national convention at Baltimore.

  • Hemenway, Democratic leader and editor of the Hartford Times, was one of its most valuable supporters.

  • The hand of the "boss" of the saloon-keepers was clearly recognized in the game that was played.

  • This was refused and the charter was defeated by an overwhelming majority with no suffrage clause to handicap it.

  • To the Committee for General Affairs was entrusted the task of drawing up a plan for the summoning of a National Convention on March 4.

  • National Convention to draw up a new constitution on Unitarian lines.

  • The governor of Massachusetts, disturbed by the growth of discontent all about him, suggested to the state legislature in 1785 the advisability of a national convention to enlarge the powers of the Congress.

  • At the end of his second term he insisted on selecting his own successor; at a national convention, chosen by party voters, but packed with his office holders and friends, he nominated Martin Van Buren of New York.

  • By dint of much labor the friends of a new form of government induced the Congress to call a national convention to take into account the state of America.

  • In 1876 (twenty-five years ago) I was President of a National Convention held at Nashville, Tenn, and of which H.

  • It was thought unwise, in our peculiar condition, to hasten to proclaim in advance of the gathered wisdom of such an august body as a National Convention.

  • I continued my tour of observation, and, having been appointed a delegate from Ohio to a national convention to be held in Charleston, South Carolina, I attended.

  • You entangle us in sophisms," replied the abbĂ© Maury; "how long have we been a national convention?

  • Its address was imperious, and concluded by demanding the deposition of the king, and a national convention.

  • It is asked," said he, "how long the deputies of the people have been a national convention?

  • Having heard many complaints of the want of enthusiasm among Northern women in the war, we deemed it fitting to call a National Convention.

  • This being a national convention, it seems peculiarly appropriate that it should begin its work at the District of Columbia.

  • Who, asked Mrs. Rose, was the first to call a National Convention of women--New York or Massachusetts?

  • Even Thurlow Weed found it difficult to prevail upon his friends to bide their time until the next national convention.

  • This was the condition of affairs when the two great political parties of the country assembled in national convention in June, 1856, to select candidates for President and Vice President.

  • In the year of the presidential election, the national committee calls a national convention, naming the time and place, and the representation of each State.

  • Each party meets in national convention later on in the year, and nominates the candidates whom it will support for President and Vice President, and puts forth a declaration of principles called a "platform.

  • A national convention is an important assemblage.

  • National Convention, or else to the fact that William D.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    constitutional questions; general description; human societies; love them; national affairs; national character; national church; national committee; national debt; national economy; national election; national highway; national honor; national independence; national industry; national institution; national interest; national life; national pride; national prosperity; national unity; national vice; national wealth; north side; said smiling; sooner heard