convention

Definition:
1. A large formal assembly.
2. Something regarded as a normative example.
3. (diplomacy) an international agreement.
4. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.

Use 'convention' in a sentence:

• 1. We go offstage and come back for the convention of the encore.
• 2. It is a very important academic convention.
• 3. Since the Convention was drawn up international opinion has begun to move against it.
• 4. He sets at naught every convention of society.
• 5. Freed from the bonds of convention and the fear of what others may think, the mind responds with new solutions.
• 6. Such explanations, however, illuminate neither the source of this curious convention nor the reason for its popularity.
• 7. The convention was a debacle.
• 8. The action is an open violation of the Vienna Convention.
• 9. According to the right-hand rule, they would be spinning, by our convention, anticlockwise.
• 10. The BIO recently held a convention which included sessions to coach lawyers on the shifting landscape for patents.
• 11. This convention expanded to discussions of the possibility of all the British colonies uniting into one nation.
• 12. The party hired her to stage-manage their convention.
• 13. It's obviously important to get as much mileage out of the convention as possible.
• 14. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were realists.
• 15. They invited Ken Kesey to come and speak at the convention, at the teach-in.
• 16. Many countries are signatories to/ of the Berne Convention.
• 17. One common convention for naming service uses upper case letters to separate words in the name of the service.
• 18. The president's convention speech received favourable reviews.
• 19. The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
• 20. The country seems to be violating several articles of the convention.
• 21. Houston was chosen as the site for the convention.
• 22. The Democratic convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
• 23. For the first time, a woman will be the keynoter at the convention this year.
• 24. The National Convention has promised armed support to any people who wish to rise against armed oppression.
• 25. Birmingham's International Convention Centre is the venue for a three-day arts festival.
• 26. He reacted strongly against the artistic conventions of his time.
• 27. I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noises.
• 28. The country appears to be violating several articles of the convention.
• 29. At these conventions, executives fraternized with the key personnel of other banks.
• 30. Despite her wish to defy convention, she had become pregnant and married at 21.
• 31. The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
• 32. Yesterday's NEA event looked like a dress rehearsal for the Democratic convention.
• 33. It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest.
• 34. By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
• 35. Back in the Fifties, social convention required that males models keep their kit on.
• 36. In the past, choice of soul mate was limited by geography, social convention and family tradition.
• 37. The International Convention Centre is the venue for a three-day arts festival.
• 38. The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
• 39. The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.
• 40. The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention.
• 41. After the war, a convention was set up to frame a constitution.
• 42. He's determined to speak at the Democratic Convention.
• 43. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
• 44. He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.
• 45. All new fashion starts out as a reaction against existing convention.
• 46. The convention does not apply to us.
• 47. It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
• 48. Article 10 of the European Convention guarantees free speech.