The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

The Forum, tightly controlled by the government, decided elections should be held in about 3 years, elected a transition advisory legislature, and announced that a constitutional convention will finalize a draft constitution.

Octavius Catto, the promoter of the Pythians, decided to apply for membership in the National Association of Base Ball Players, normally a matter of sending delegates to the annual convention ; beyond that, a formality.

* Joel Spolsky ( for Apps Hungarian ): " If you read Simonyi's paper closely, what he was getting at was the same kind of naming convention as I used in my example above where we decided that meant " unsafe string " and meant " safe string.

In 1921, on the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equality for winter sports, and after much discussion it was decided to organize an " international week of winter sport " in 1924 in Chamonix.

The five women decided to hold a women's rights convention in the immediate future, while the Motts were still in the area, and drew up an announcement to run in the Seneca County Courier.

However it was rejected and it was decided that the convention be amended rather than replaced ( Year1953 ).

The city of Brussels had decided to allocate this area to " infrastructures dedicated to the international vocation of Brussels " and planned to erect a convention centre of " international dimensions " with a capacity of 3, 500 seats and an " important commercial centre.

With New Jersey a key state in the upcoming election, McKinley and his close adviser, future senator Mark Hanna, decided to have the convention select Hobart.

At the convention Hendricks was part of the committee that created the organization of the townships and counties of the state, decided upon the taxation and financial portion of the constitution, and also debated the clauses on the powers of the different offices.

However, after the tornado he decided to turn the convention into a relief effort.

IBM lawyers stopped this handy naming convention from being used and decided that all products needed to be called " product FOR platform " ( for example, DB2 for OS / 390 ).

They decided to hold the " Whole World's Temperance Convention " in September, 1853, the same month that the other meeting was planned, determining that the other event hosted by the male-only delegates would be referred to as the " Half World's " convention.

The eastern bosses were hostile to McKinley for failing to agree to the offer they had made to Hanna, and they decided to seek support for local favorite son candidates, believing that McKinley could be forced to bargain for support at the convention if he was denied a majority.

A convention held on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh decided that the Scottish government would pledge loyalty to William of Orange.

After great infighting at their St. Louis convention they decided to endorse Bryan but with their own vice presidential nominee, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.

At the same time it was decided that deputies to that convention should be elected by all Frenchmen 25 years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor.

During 1907 — 1908 a national convention decided upon unification, and in 1910 the Union of South Africa was established and Cape Colony became " Cape Province " therein.

During the war, however, the political wing began to gain momentum, and at the 1919 UFA convention it was decided that UFA candidates would contest the next provincial election.

When he refused, Congress decided not to honor the terms of the convention, and the army remained in captivity.

Lee and others withdrew from the convention after the election, and decided to organize a new world-level organization.

Hyndman, who had run for parliament earlier that year, decided to start a new political organization which he called the Democratic Federation and in June called its foundation convention, consisting of an assortment of radical grouplets and individuals.

A report was delivered by this delegate on the youth situation in America and the convention at this time first decided to establish a serious youth section, to be called the Young Communist League.

In October 1918, Bunjevci held a national convention in Subotica and decided to secede Banat, Bačka and Baranja from the Kingdom of Hungary and to join Kingdom of Serbia.

" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly the convention parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – " I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."

By convention the products form the numerator.

CPAN module distributions usually have names in the form of CGI-Application-3. 1 ( where the :: used in the module's name has been replaced with a dash, and the version number has been appended to the name ), but this is only a convention ; many prominent distributions break the convention, especially those that contain multiple modules.

Another form of collation is radical-and-stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji, whose thousands of symbols defy ordering by convention.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

The possible equivalence relations on any set X, when ordered by set inclusion, form a complete lattice, called Con X by convention.

In what follows, an expression of the form is considered by convention to be equal to zero whenever This is justified because for any logarithmic base.

But by convention, the LR name stands for the form of parsing invented by Donald Knuth, and excludes the earlier, less powerful precedence methods.

Software limitations may result in its display either in full-sized capitals ( RUN ) or in full-sized capitals of a smaller font ; either is anyway regarded as an acceptable substitute for genuine small caps .</ ref > A related concept is the lemma ( or citation form ), which is a particular form of a lexeme that is chosen by convention to represent a canonical form of a lexeme.

It took Van Buren and his partisan friends a decade and a half to form the Democratic Party ; many elements, such as the national convention, were borrowed from other parties.

When following the SI convention of not-mixing unit names and unit symbols the torr can be mixed with SI units to form, for example, torr · liters / second ( Torr · L / s ).

The original use of the term was as a form of praxis rather than theory – a term used as a convention to refer to something that otherwise cannot be discussed in words – and early writings such as the Dao De Jing and the I Ching make pains to distinguish between conceptions of Dao ( sometimes referred to as " named Dao ") and the Dao itself ( the " unnamed Dao "), which cannot be expressed or understood in language.

Later, following the recommendation of the convention, the Third Amendment, along with the others that now form the Bill of Rights, was proposed by Congress on September 25, 1789.

The monarch appoints a Prime Minister as the head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, guided by the strict convention that the Prime Minister should be the member of the House of Commons most likely to be able to form a Government with the support of that House.

Most Worldcons have between five and twelve division heads who form the convention executive.

** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.

As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

The left-right convention is consistent with the international agreement that redox potentials be given for reactions written in the form of reduction half-reactions.

Roosevelt's only hope at the convention was to form a " stop-Taft " alliance with La Follette, but Roosevelt had alienated La Follette, and the alliance could not form.

By convention, the standard form of an optimization problem is stated in terms of minimization.