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"Convention" in a Sentence (17 examples)
There was a convention last month.
Progress in science was often barred by convention.
Please let me know if you need help in reserving a room closer to the Convention Center.
Mr White said that because of the convention, there were no rooms available.
Even if there is a convention, I shouldn't ask them for so much money.
The first speech was given at the convention by none other than Clint Eastwood, the famous actor.
One weekend all of the hotels in the city were full because there was a large convention.
I just followed convention.
There was a new candidate on the ticket at the Democratic convention.
The party convention was put off.
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The convention was held in Geneva.
The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.
The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.
The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re- placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below: (40) VP → V AP (PP) (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be optional.)
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