Synonym: convening, conventionalism, conventionality, formula, normal, pattern, rule. Similar words: conventional, invention, conversation, prevention, intervention, convenience, a bone of contention, conversion. Meaning: [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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121) Held in a sprawling Phoenix convention center, the lavish party is big enough to accommodate four or five bands simultaneously.
122) By convention the geologist plots coarse grains to the left of the abscissa and fine to the right.
123) Relationship to other instruments Finally, three Articles of the Convention deal with other international arrangements which may be used.
124) The Republicans have fenced off the convention with chain link.
125) Vice President Al Gore has been working since before the convention opened Monday to keep the party together on the welfare issue.
126) He also made a deal with the Port District that permitted construction of the convention center.
127) No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks, but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves.
128) The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
129) The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
130) Not only have they been booked solid for months for convention week, but their meeting rooms are jammed with lavish receptions.
131) It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention.
132) The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
133) We committed ourselves to arms control,[http://sentencedict.com] disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year.
134) Ike was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention and other high denomination offices.
135) Convention planners at first hoped protesters would remain confined within the official demonstration site.
136) The Port District built the convention center in 1989, but it is managed by the city.
137) I think he should be given a role at the convention.
138) That convention needed a consensus, while the London Dumping Convention adopts its resolutions by a two-thirds majority.
139) Elfant is a political button vendor, a lifelong liberal who is making his living this week at the Republican National Convention.
140) Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties.
141) When I saw him in the Convention I was induced to pay the greatest attention to him whenever he spoke.
142) The Bob Dole who approaches the convention may now undergo a bruising few weeks as conservatives rage around him.
143) Many of these protesters will be outside agitators, even convention delegates, from anti-abortion strongholds like Texas and Florida.
144) There were two notable features of the museum community's response to this ongoing crisis, at least as manifested at the convention.
145) Environmental groups deplored the failure of the convention to impose an absolute ban on the dumping of radioactive waste.
146) The Republican National Committee has complete control over the security for its convention.
147) There will also be close, searched boats, blocked streets and all the other inconveniences of a major political convention.
148) The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states.
149) An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
150) I especially admired the way he challenged, and overcame, convention.
More similar words: conventional, invention, conversation, prevention, intervention, convenience, a bone of contention, conversion, conviction, mention, attention, not to mention, identification, pay attention to, convey, concentration, convert, invent, inventory, continent, investigation, condition, conception, connection, conditions, consumption, contribution, construction, conservation, constitution.