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convention Noun

— A convention is a large meeting of a specific group or for a specific purpose. There's a doctor's convention in town this week and all the hotels are full. The garden show will be at the convention centre. — A convention is an international agreement the controls how countries behave. This action goes against the European Convention on Human Rights. In my culture, a convention is to eat raw fish. — A convention is a particular way of acting or a particular belief of a group of people. By convention, people in North America drive on the right hand side of the road. There are a set of conventions that every member must observe.

convention

— noun (= rule, formula) something regarded as a normative example the convention of not naming the main character violence is the rule not the exception his formula for impressing visitors — noun a large formal assembly political convention — noun (diplomacy) an international agreement — noun (= convening) the act of convening — noun (= conventionality) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

Synonyms convention synonyms

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convention English » English

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Topics convention topics

What do people use convention to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Politics

What words refer to a meeting of a political party?

convention caucus

Examples convention examples

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Simple sentences

The first speech was given at the convention by none other than Clint Eastwood, the famous actor.

The convention voted.

The convention voted again.

The Geneva Convention is not recognized at Guantanamo.

Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention was strikingly similar to Michelle Obama's 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

There was a convention last month.

The convention opened as planned.

Bush respects the Geneva Convention.

Is this your first convention?

Movie subtitles

Is the. librarian convention in town?

To satisfy stupid convention.

I know, it's a convention.

The faster it comes, the faster this convention will be over.

Are these regulations governed by the Geneva convention?

At the convention anything can happen.

Especially now with a national convention coming up.

I know of nothing more absurd than a doctors' convention except a psychiatrists' convention.

Women who, for his sake, had set convention at defiance. were seen to grow pale if Dorian Gray entered the room.

Not New York. In Boston at the psychiatry convention.

They'll swarm over your house so fast that every closet your family's been in for the last six years will look like a police convention.

Pretty soon. I got here a moth convention.

This is more than a convention.

The elks live in the hills, and hold their convention in the spring.

Do you all swear to be present at our 87th annual convention in Chicago?

I was afraid that if I took the oath to go to the convention, maybe my wife wouldn't let me go.

Go in and tell her that you're going to the convention.

Yes, there is. You didn't tell her about going to the convention.

What convention?

The Sons of the Desert are giving their annual convention in Chicago next week and Stan and I are going.

You're not going to the convention. You're going to the mountains with me.

I'm not going to the convention, I'm going to the mountains.

If you think you're gallivanting off with a lot of hoodlums, to any convention whenever you want to.

You want to run off to the convention. Convention!

You'll go to the convention over my dead body.

I'm the boss in this house, and when I say I'm going to the convention, I'm going.

SIR, AREN'T YOU OVERSTEPPING THE BOUNDS OF CONVENTION?

I haven't seen you since the convention.

I'm sorry it had to happen at a time like this, V.S., with the convention just starting.

Well, who's gonna cover the convention now?

Linda, Harrington's having his appendix out in Havana right this minute, and somebody has to be at that advertising convention.

I'll have to be at the convention during the day and with Underwood at night.

Why, Van, I never expected to see you covering a convention again.

You sent 12,000 racegoers to a temperance convention in Wales.

What's this, a convention?

A little Phi Beta Kappa convention.

Spats dug up a couple of Wyoming types in town on a convention.

They'll swarm over your house so fast, every closet your family's been in will look like a police convention.

And now, dear Mr. Warren, after receiving your kind acceptance of our invitation to speak at our convention, we decided unanimously to just surprise you in advance with the most treasured relic in our little museum.

News and current affairs

Unfortunately, like so many other international agreements, the Convention on Biological Diversity remains essentially unknown, un-championed, and unfulfilled.

The US promised action to fight man-made climate change as a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in 1992.

As the European Constitutional Convention assembles to debate the fine points of the European Union's future institutions, now is the moment to think the unthinkable about where Europe is heading.

That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

In fact, it has not even ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

After the Republican convention, polls showed McCain ahead in early September, but after the financial meltdown, Obama took the lead.

Although possessing these weapons of mass destruction is technically not illegal, most states are parties to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has refused to sign.

Barely two months ago, the signing of a constitutional document by a US-appointed group of un-elected Iraqi officials was heralded as if it were the re-enactment of America's constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

The Convention on the Future of Europe is discussing ways to integrate new policy areas, such as internal security, immigration, elements of a common foreign policy and of external security.

But the Convention's outcome is unpredictable.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and associated international commitments must become the basis for productive dialogues leading to binding covenants.

This is one of the most difficult but relevant questions to be addressed by the convention that will debate Europe's constitution beginning this March.

In 1973, an ILO convention called for a worldwide minimum working age of 15.

In ten years, only 27 of the ILO's 150 member nations ratified that convention.

What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.

Of course, such a convention will not prevent all future acts of terrorism.

How can the US expect China to follow rules on maritime delimitation in the East and South China Seas when it refuses to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?

Such symbiosis requires a healthy disregard for convention.

We have not only ratified the European Human Rights Convention, we also made it a part of our own Constitution.

Austria is also constitutionally bound by the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

But the Convention's outcome is unpredictable. The opposition posed by this newly empowered political constituency could be decisive.

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