Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

-- Arrangements for a statewide pre-primary endorsing convention in Fresno next Jan. 26-28.

-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.

One finds, for example, that a terse and stereotyped verbal expression, seeming at first to be a mere hollow convention, reveals itself over the months of therapy as the vehicle for expressing the most varied and intense feelings, and the most unconventional of meanings.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

but in this respect it was merely following the accepted Chinese convention for all maps.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The Democratic convention unanimously nominated him for the spot, although the conservative clique from Nashville had serious reservations.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

In such cases a common convention is to use the " elsewhere condition " to decide which allophone will stand for the phoneme.

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

For aircraft with joint registration, one country is designated as the registration state for the purpose of the convention.

Archbishops are, by convention, appointed to the Privy Council and may, therefore, also use the style of " The Right Honourable " for life ( unless they are later removed from the council ).

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The convention for a polypeptide is to list its constituent amino acid residues as they occur from the amino terminus to the carboxylic acid terminus.

By convention, the term vitamin does not include other essential nutrients such as dietary minerals, essential fatty acids, or essential amino acids ( which are needed in larger amounts than vitamins ), nor does it encompass the large number of other nutrients that promote health but are otherwise required less often.

The convention for a nucleic acid sequence is to list the nucleotides as they occur from the 5 ' end to the 3 ' end of the polymer chain, where 5 ' and 3 ' refer to the numbering of carbons around the ribose ring which participate in forming the phosphate diester linkages of the chain.

The EJB 3. 0 specification relies heavily on the use of annotations, a feature added to the Java language with its 5. 0 release and convention over configuration, to enable a much less verbose coding style.

Email servers and client use the following TCP port numbers by convention, but customized configuration exist:

The " rc " naming convention of " rc files " was inspired by the " runcom " facility mentioned above and does not stand for " resource configuration " or " runtime configuration " as is often wrongly guessed.

Where Unix programs that use dotfiles are ported to Windows, they are sometimes modified to accept some other naming convention ; for example, GNU Emacs permits its configuration file to be named < tt > _emacs </ tt > instead of < tt >. emacs </ tt >.

As another example, in a ferroelectric crystal, there is typically a centrosymmetric configuration above the Curie temperature, and P is defined there by convention to be zero.

It can also serve as a convention hall or large dining area when in this configuration.

The general convention was for network hubs and switches to use the MDIX configuration, while all other nodes such as personal computers, workstations, servers and routers used an MDI interface.

convention center includes an auditorium which is flexible in design and offers a variety of configuration selections.

In sociology a social rule refers to any social convention commonly adhered to in a society.

By convention, electric engine refers to a railroad electric locomotive, rather than an electric motor.

(" Bavli ") By convention, a reference to the " Gemara " or " Talmud ," without further qualification, refers to the Babylonian version.

The usual convention is that spelling barque refers to a ship and bark to tree hide, to distinguish the homophones.

Sometimes the word ' caustic ' is used as a synonym but, by convention, ' caustic ' generally refers only to strong bases, particularly alkalis, and not to acids, oxidizers, or other non-alkaline corrosives.

The " intelligent instrument " name refers to the program's built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints.

It was claimed that this was to make it easier to appoint staff from the US despite the fact that assistant professor generally refers to a non-tenured position in the US while at Warwick it is a permanent position ( subject possibly to probation )., and that both readers and professors in the UK would correspond to professors in the US Nottingham has also adopted the same convention.

Lakshman Rekha, in modern Indian parlance, refers to a strict convention or a rule, never to be broken.

Right-hand convention refers to the Right hand rule.

By convention cardiogenic refers to left ventricular causes.

Generally it refers to an election in a parliamentary system called when not required ( either by law or convention ), usually to capitalize on a unique electoral opportunity or to decide a pressing issue.

In art, the term refers to the treatment of any subject ( a figure, group, locale, motif, convention or melody ) in a particularly grand or exalted manner.

Generally, usage of “ presidential nominating convention ” refers to the two major parties ’ quadrennial events: the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.

In the United States, a political convention usually refers to a presidential nominating convention, but it can also refer to state, county, or congressional district nominating conventions.

The para orientation illustrated ( p-toluenesulfonyl ) is most common, and by convention tosyl refers to the p-toluenesulfonyl group.

It is coincidental that rHGH also refers to rhesus monkey GH, using the accepted naming convention.

" Sayana " ( or also ) by convention refers to the collective authorship of the commentary as a whole without separating such layers.

Also, if the " 2007 " in " Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron / InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile " refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then YDAU ( which comes two years later ) is 2009.

In Exit The Body, a play by Fred Carmichael, Kate Bixley refers to the protagonist's husband, who writes a newspaper column under the alias " Dorothy Duckworth " and is attending a convention for lonely-hearts column writers, as " The only female at the convention who doesn't take Serutan.

An exception to this convention is with the Lt. Kernal hard disk subsystem, in which the drive number refers to " logical units " ( virtual drives created on a single physical drive ), which made syntax such as 4: or 10: necessary if a file to be opened was not on logical unit zero ( equivalent to drive mechanism zero in a dual floppy unit ).

The practice, called in onomastics theophory, refers to this naming convention of adding a god's name ( or the local equivalent of the generic term for god ) to an individual's proper name.

The 1 MET reference value of 1 kcal · kg < sup >− 1 </ sup >· h < sup >− 1 </ sup >, is used by convention and refers to a typical metabolism at rest of an " average " individual.