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convention and Russian
Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.
But Bulgaria, by making the acceptance of Russian arbitration conditional, in effect denied any discussion and caused Russia to repudiate its alliance with Bulgaria ( see Russo-Bulgarian military convention signed 31 May 1902 ).
The convention provided for Russian acquiescence that Afghanistan was now outside this sphere of influence, and for Russia to consult directly with Britain on matters relating to Russian-Afghan relations.
The word Kazakh stems largely from a Russian convention seeking to distinguish the Qazaqs of the steppes from the Cossacks of the Russian Imperial military.
A beginning was made by the siege and capture of County of Kexholm in Russian Finland March 2, 1611 ; and on July 16, Great Novgorod was occupied and a convention concluded with the magistrates of that wealthy city whereby Charles IX.
On the 14th day of February arrangements had already been completed, and the British Ambassador in Berlin was able to inform his government that a Prussian military envoy " has concluded a military convention with the Russian Government, according to which the two governments will reciprocally afford facilities to each other for the suppression of the insurrectionary movements which have lately taken place in Poland and Lithuania.
* July: Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is arrested at the annual Def Con hacker convention.
The intention of the provisional government was the organization of elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and its convention.
For example in the classic text translated from the Russian 1966 3rd Edition and published by Dover, the coordinate space is first introduced with coordinates in superscript indices ( x < sup > i </ sup >) and oblique reference frame and basis vectors with subscript indices (); and the motivation for this convention is deferred to following text quoted later:
The Russian agent reveals that they plan on detonating the bomb in Paris during a convention where all the world's leader will be present.
The pass formed the southern limit of the Russian sphere of influence as defined in the convention between Great Britain and Russia of the 28th of April 1899.
It holds a yearly convention in which luminaries of Russian music participate by teaching and performing.
At last he signed a convention with Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, whereby the Royal Navy was to escort the Russian squadron to London, with the Russians still flying their flags.
While decisive authority on the floor of the convention and on the Central Executive Committee which it elected remained in the hands of the so-called " Russian Federations ," Ruthenberg was elected by the Chicago conclave as the first Executive Secretary of the new organization.
However, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Pavel Tsitsianov, moved his army into Imereti and forced Solomon to succumb to Russian vassalage in the convention of Elaznauri of April 25, 1804.
On August 6, after long and heated negotiations, Lithuania and Soviet Russia signed a convention regarding withdrawal of Russian troops from the recognized Lithuanian territory.
Immediately after the close of the Detroit gathering, Golos and a number of his comrades in the Russian Federation, including Alexander Stoklitsky and Nicholas Hourwich, traveled to Chicago to attend another convention which established the Communist Party of America, forerunner of the Communist Party, USA.
*` Russian ' convention with a difference, The Hindu, Tuesday, Oct 04, 2005
* Aelita ( convention ), a Soviet / Russian science fiction fandom convention

convention and whereby
This kenning follows a convention whereby the name of any god is combined with some male attribute ( e. g. war or weaponry ) to produce a kenning for " man ".
He declared simultaneity only a convenient convention which depends on the speed of light, whereby the constancy of the speed of light would be a useful postulate for making the laws of nature as simple as possible.
The party invented the convention, a system whereby locally elected delegates would choose state candidates and pledge their loyalty.
For example, shortly before the GOP convention, Daugherty struck a deal with millionaire and political opportunist Jake Harmon, whereby 18 Oklahoma delegates whose votes Harmon had bought for Lowden were committed to Harding as a second choice if Lowden's effort faltered.
It was saved by Toll, who cajoled the French marshal into a convention whereby the Swedish army, with all its munitions of war, was permitted to return unmolested to Sweden on September 7, 1807.
The royalists were of no concern: the duc d ' Angoulême raised a small force in the south, but at Valence it melted away in front of Grouchy ’ s command ; and the duke, on 9 April 1815, signed a convention whereby they received a free pardon from the Emperor.
Nevertheless, the now-common practice of the party with the most seats forming the government has led to a widespread misconception among voters that a convention exists whereby the party with the most seats always gets to form the government.
Therefore, an additional convention exists whereby loudspeaker manufacturers specify a conservative estimate of the average impedance that the loudspeaker will present while playing typical music.
Theoretically, this can happen at any time, although a convention exists whereby Prime Ministers do not call early elections unless they have no reasonable alternative.
One of the first agenda items at a convention is therefore credentialing, whereby the Credentials Committee determines which group is recognized as the official delegation.
In contract bridge, a splinter bid is a convention whereby a double jump bid in a side-suit indicates a trump fit and a singleton or void in the suit bid.
After the French capture of Laghouat, the Mozabites concluded a convention with them in 1853, whereby they accepted to pay an annual contribution of 1, 800 francs in return for their independence.
A challenge format makes sense for that purpose, and it fits the convention whereby contestants meet on the field with money or a trophy at stake.

convention and girls
As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called " flappers " because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.
Since then, she has recorded a series of public service announcements championing girls education and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the convention on the Rights of the Child.
This is a recent tradition, however, and until the 1940s the convention was exactly the opposite: pink was considered the appropriate color for boys as the more masculine and " decided " while blue was the more delicate and dainty color and therefore appropriate for girls.
Anne Allison makes reference to the convention in Permitted and Prohibited Desires, theorizing that the exposure of women's ( or girls ') underwear in ero-manga is constructed as an " immobilizing glance ", in the sense that panchira is usually presented as a tableau in which the ( female ) object of desire is ' petrified ' by the male gaze.
The film starts with the girls walking into the Business International Association convention where all eyes are turned on to the girls.

convention and convey
Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention ; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.
In computer programming, an indent style is a convention governing the indentation of blocks of code to convey the program's structure.
Its name is derived from the particle / anti-particle naming convention to convey its paired and complementary existence with the Xeelee ; it does not describe an opposition to the Xeelee.

convention and idea
Though the idea for a bill of rights had been suggested at the end of the constitutional convention, the delegates wanted to go home and thought the suggestion unnecessary.
While the idea may have begun as a creative ploy by the BBC to save time and money on props, it soon became an in-joke genre convention in its own right, as the old-style police box was phased out of use.
Lessig's web site convention. idea. informer. com allows anyone to propose and vote on constitutional amendments.
* Steve McConnell ( for Hungarian ): " Although the Hungarian naming convention is no longer in widespread use, the basic idea of standardizing on terse, precise abbreviations continues to have value.
This convention was an idea borrowed from the puppet handlers of bunraku theater, who dressed in total black in an effort to simulate props moving independently of their controls.
Bellamy went to speak to a national meeting of school superintendents to promote the celebration ; the convention liked the idea and selected a committee of leading educators to implement the program, including the immediate past president of the National Education Association.
: Concrete poetry begins by assuming a total responsibility before language: accepting the premise of the historical idiom as the indispensable nucleus of communication, it refuses to absorb words as mere indifferent vehicles, without life, without personality without history — taboo-tombs in which convention insists on burying the idea.
On October 14, 1967, Lévesque left the Liberal Party after its members refused to discuss the idea of a sovereign Quebec during its convention.
" The convention briefly discussed the contentious topic of western separation, which was not a serious concern as most of the delegates rejected the idea and Manning stated that he would refuse to lead a western separatist party and went on to say " We want to tell the rest of the country not that the West is leaving, but that the West is arriving.
The idea of a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation grew in favor.
There are variations on the mnemonic depending on context, but all variations are related to the one idea of choosing a convention.
A newer convention of parkour philosophy has been the idea of " human reclamation ".
At the UFA convention in 1923, a leader of this group, George Bevington, made a passionate speech in favour of this idea, bringing most of the membership around to his side.
The convention passed a resolution in favour of the idea ( along with one calling on the provincial treasury to establish a loan department, an idea that came to fruition fifteen years later with the creation of Alberta Treasury Branches ), against the stiff opposition of Attorney-General Brownlee.
The idea of removing the gubernatorial term limit was first proposed in the 1850 constitutional convention, but was vigorously opposed by some of the state's best known statesmen of the day, including Archibald Dixon, Garrett Davis, Benjamin Hardin, and Charles A. Wickliffe.
The idea that Highlanders should be listed as clans while the Lowlanders should be termed as families was merely a 19th century convention.
Both cities Jackson and Madison, along with Exeter, New Hampshire and Crawfordsville, Iowa, bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party ," however, Jackson is most often associated with this idea, as the event taking place was the first official mass Republican Party convention., with Madison, Wisconsin only a week later.
The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.
He and Montgomery discussed the idea of holding a provincial convention to elect representatives to Congress.
In fact, the idea of a national convention is itself foreign to standard Primitive Baptist concepts.
The idea of a national convention is itself foreign to standard Primitive Baptist concepts.
In 1870, a convention was called to meet with Harmony church, Gallatin County, Illinois, with the idea of organizing a general association comprising all the annual General Baptist associations.
The convention proving hostile, he conceived the idea of forming another convention at Stirling to sit in the name of James VII, but the hesitancy of his associates rendered the design futile, and it was given up.

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