Synonym: accepted, customary, established, formal, traditional, usual. Similar words: convention, invention, conversation, prevention, intervention, constitutional, convenience, a bone of contention. Meaning: [-ʃənl] adj. 1. following accepted customs and proprieties 2. conforming with accepted standards 3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy 4. unimaginative and conformist 5. represented in simplified or symbolic form 6. in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past 7. rigidly formal or bound by convention.
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91. According to this conventional wisdom, the middle class and the poor think the rich should pay a heavy share.
92. Conventional discussion of the breakup of the boom and its underlying causes are generally inadequate.
93. Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners, suppliers or customers.
94. Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine.
95. Most of the conventional capital projects were still in process at the pre-execution stage.
96. It is important not to use conventional chucks for hammer drilling.
97. They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
98. It is misleading if it means simply that students learn how to acquire conventional encyclopaedia-like knowledge for themselves.
99. When Southern blacks first came up to the North, it was conventional for other blacks to take them in.
100. Their measurements are less than those of standard ovens, although built-in models are the same width as built-in conventional ovens.
101. The third development, the Lanterns, built to a more conventional design, was being completed during the survey period.
102. Monorails have always attracted inventors because the structure can be lighter than that of conventional railways.
103. But the increasing availability of federal funds for conventional capital projects was clearly to the advantage of the departments.
104. If you pulled an ordinary conventional cloak over it, nobody would even see it.
105. Throughout the alliance the will was lacking to create conventional forces on the scale needed to balance those of the Eastern bloc.
106. Type 2 - Automatic or man-rider stacker-cranes contained in a conventional building structure - back-to-back racking.
107. No doubt lawyers would be happy with this but conventional breeding programmes could well suffer.
108. This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette.
109. Underneath all the rebelliousness, of course, I never envisioned anything but a conventional Valparaiso-like future for myself.
110. Others will be following more conventional, academic types of college courses.
111. Bookings procedures were based on a conventional chart with Whitney diary and room racks, while billing was based on Sweda machines.
112. The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects.
113. In my view, scientists have a crucial role to play in the rapprochement of conventional and complementary medicine.
114. This may sound like the conventional wisdom on the brave new world of short-term, contingent jobs.
115. By this I mean large, fast circuits similar to those flown by a conventional aircraft.
116. Conventional compared with individualized chemotherapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
117. Some potential uses of conventional biological reactors, insitu bioremediation, and activated carbon adsorption are summarised in Table 1.
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118. I am not wholly barren of hope, for circumstances have been dealing the conventional wisdom a new series of heavy blows.
119. Crowds enjoyed seeing a team of transvestites trounce more conventional athletes.
120. Conventional allergists use skin tests to confirm the diagnosis, not to make it.
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