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Sentence count:216+16Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: conveningconventionalismconventionalityformulanormalpatternruleSimilar words: conventionalinventionconversationpreventioninterventionconveniencea bone of contentionconversionMeaning: [kən'venʃn]  n. 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 5. the act of convening. 
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91) A luxury hotel adjoins the convention center.
92) Before the convention, Republicans squabbled over the perennially hot-button abortion issue.
93) More than 80 women were harassed at the Las Vegas convention of naval aviators, an annual anything-goes party.
94) A convention to draw up such a charter has already begun work.
95) The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
96) He said he knows the calls are connected to the convention, because they originate from hotels.
97) It is time to stop seeking national safety behind parchment barriers such as the unverifiable and unenforceable 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
98) Powell ignited the delegates crammed into the San Diego Convention Center with a fast-paced speech that was interrupted 42 times by applause.
99) Convention delegates were beaten, stabbed, and shot promiscuously by the police.
100) The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear.
101) I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution.
102) The Administration proposed and the Senate approved a similar understanding in its resolution of ratification of the Convention against Torture.
103) A Humphrey-type campaign to bypass the primaries and seek the nomination at the convention itself could no longer hope to succeed.
104) That convention should have been one of the peak moments of my career as a feminist activist.
105) Walter argues that the Convention guarantees compensation whenever a citizen is deprived of property.
106) The Convention set a transitional period of 10 years,[http://sentencedict.com] with an industrial free trade area coming into being by 1970.
107) They are as boring as a civil servants' convention, but for armagnac, they are ideal.
108) Misguided opponents of the proposal complain the miles separating the resort from downtown will discourage convention business at Starr Pass.
109) Some convention delegates live near military bases that were closing or had closed.
110) Like Anderson, they wanted those within the convention center to hear them.
111) Without realizing it Macmillan trespassed on the modern constitutional convention.
112) Since then, each party has chosen its candidate on the first ballot at its quadrennial convention.
113) His plan to convene a summer political convention drawing together individuals and groups who organized the Million Man March.
114) The Bill draws on the scheme proposed by the constitutional convention.
115) It proposed an international convention on air transport under the auspices of an international authority.
116) Early modern artists, generally speaking, did little to overturn this convention in painting or sculpture.
117) Arizona Republicans put aside their political differences and intraparty squabbling Saturday to nominate delegates to their upcoming national convention.
118) The mayor then ordered the police to launch an intensive attack upon the convention.
119) Will he confirm that curfews constitute collective punishment, which is punishable under article 33 of the fourth Geneva convention?
120) She was the first black woman to make a keynote address to the national convention of a major political party.
More similar words: conventionalinventionconversationpreventioninterventionconveniencea bone of contentionconversionconvictionmentionattentionnot to mentionidentificationpay attention toconveyconcentrationconvertinventinventorycontinentinvestigationconditionconceptionconnectionconditionsconsumptioncontributionconstructionconservationconstitution
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