This is typically used for cars crossing international borders, and is overseen by the United Nations as the Distinguishing Signs of Vehicles in International Traffic, being authorized by the UN's Geneva Convention on Road Traffic ( 1949 ) and Vienna Convention on Road Traffic ( 1968 ).

The CDA convention that occurs on presidential election years is typically held in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention.

Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees.

Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms.

The annual NRB Convention & Exposition is held typically at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN.

Each council of a chapter is entitled to a vote at the National Convention, which typically meets every two years and is the highest level of authority in the organization.

Convention songs typically have contrasting homophonic and contrapuntal sections.

Though the three components of Cultural Convention take place concurrently, they are typically hosted in different locations.

The awards are presented annually, typically at the World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ).

The conference is typically hosted by the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

22 delegates and two alternates went to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries ( LDCs ).

It is of note that the Convention places a general prohibition on the exportation or importation of wastes between Parties and non-Parties.

There is an overlap between biological warfare and chemical warfare, as the use of toxins produced by living organisms is considered under the provisions of both the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The General Council of Congregational Christian Churches was formed from a merger between the National Council of Congregational Churches and the General Convention of the Christian Church, also known as Christian Churches or Christian Connection ( not to be confused with, although partially related to, the Disciples of Christ ).

Furthermore it offers the Convention Center with its 35 function rooms, glassed-in areas between halls, grassy park-like recreation zones and its own heliport.

Private hire companies such as Eirebus offer groups traveling throughout Ireland with options ranging from cars to 56 passenger coaches and many run route between airports, Pavilions Shopping Centre, National Convention Centre and the O2.

In 1975 the Asian elephant was placed on Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) which prevents international trade between member countries.

For example, the member states of the EEC signed the Brussels Convention in 1968 and, subject to amendments as new states joined, it represents the default law for all twenty-seven Member States of what is now termed the European Union on the relationships between the courts in the different countries.

On 19 April, Sir Percy stated that the British government recognized the outer line of the Convention as the border between Iraq and Kuwait.

From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).

* 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, the 12 state delegations in attendance ( Rhode Island was absent ) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective state governments.

The Qing court responded by asserting Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, resulting in the 1906 Anglo-Chinese Convention signed between Britain and China.

Although the National Convention in 1792 had planned to transfer his remains to the Panthéon, they are, two centuries later, still resting between two other graves — those of the scholarly monks Jean Mabillon and Bernard de Montfaucon — in a chapel of the abbey.

Outside the territory of the Russian SFSR, the republics were constituted mostly in lands that had formerly belonged to the Russian Monarchy and had been acquired by it between the 1700 Great Northern War and the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.

The boundary between Abd ' al-Aziz's territories of Najd and the Eastern Province and the British protectorate of Kuwait was first regulated by the Al Uqair Convention in 1922.

The Vienna Convention states that treaties are to be interpreted “ in good faith ” according to the “ ordinary meaning given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose .” International legal experts also often invoke the ' principle of maximum effectiveness ,' which interprets treaty language as having the fullest force and effect possible to establish obligations between the parties.

In 1990, consultations were begun between signatories and non-signatories ( including the United States ) over the possibility of modifying the Convention to allow the industrialized countries to join the Convention.

* Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or Between International Organizations ( 1986 )

For instance, in the lead-up to the 1964 Republican National Convention, the press referred to supporters of the insurgent Arizona conservative Barry Goldwater as " Cactus Jacobins " in their effort to unseat the moderate East Coast branch of the party ( see Rockefeller Republican ).

Malawi is a member of the following international organizations: UN and some of its specialized and related agencies ( i. e. UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO ), IMF, World Bank, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency ( MIGA ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), Berne Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), Lome Convention, African Development Bank ( AFDB ), Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), the Common Market for East and Southern Africa ( COMESA ), Non-Aligned Movement, G-77, and the World Health Organization ( WHO ).

On May 14, 1910 the European Convention of Brussels fixed the borders of Uganda, Congo, and German East Africa, which included Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi.

It was the only East Tennessee county that refused to send a delegate to the East Tennessee Convention of 1861.

The Refiners ' home court is now the McPherson Community Building at 121 East Marlin and can be toured by contacting the local Convention and Visitors Bureau.

In June 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, 30 counties of the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention met in Greeneville to discuss strategy after state voters had elected to join the Confederate States of America.

In late May 1861, just before the secession vote, delegates of the East Tennessee Convention met at Temperance Hall in Knoxville in hopes of keeping Tennessee in the Union.

Annual events in the city of Henderson include the Heritage Syrup Festival in November, celebrating the east Texas tradition of syrup making, and the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention in August.

* The Baptist General Convention of Texas was first organized in Overton as the East Texas Baptist Convention in 1847 before being incorporated into other regional alliances.

The government of East Timor has sought to negotiate a definite boundary with Australia at the halfway line between the countries, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Vocalist / guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Pérez met at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, California, and bonded over their mutual affinity for obscure musical acts such as Fairport Convention, Randy Newman and Ry Cooder.

In addition, he is the author of the monthly " SF Convention Calendar " in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and his flyer racks (" Filthy boards ") are seen at conventions all over the East Coast.

On 12 January 1794 Fabre was arrested by order of the Committee of Public Safety on a charge of malversation and forgery in connection with the affairs of the French East India Company. This struck a hard blow to the Montagnards and sent them on their way to extinction in the Convention.

The East Texas Musical Convention was organized in 1855, and is the oldest Sacred Harp convention in Texas, and the second oldest the United States.

He was a key figure at the East Tennessee Convention of 1861, which denounced secession and attempted to create a separate state in East Tennessee.

The two oldest surviving Sacred Harp singing conventions are the Chattahoochee Musical Convention ( organized in Coweta County, Georgia in 1852 ), and the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention ( organized as the East Texas Musical Convention in 1855 ).