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 and convention for amino acid configuration refers not to the optical activity of the amino acid itself, but rather to the optical activity of the isomer of glyceraldehyde from which that amino acid can, in theory, be synthesized (- glyceraldehyde is dextrorotary ;-glyceraldehyde is levorotatory ).

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.

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.

By convention in some law reports, the appellant is named first.

Chronologically the first of the passed convention in the Tokyo-Hague-Montreal system was the Tokyo Convention.

# As spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop, although without legal authority outside England, is recognised by convention as primus inter pares ( first among equals ) of all Anglican primates worldwide.

Again according to convention he posted his most experienced legions on the flanks ( the first and the third legion on his left with Pompey himself commanding, the Syrian legions in the center with Scipio, the Cilician legion and the Spanish cohorts on the right with Afranius ), dispersing his new recruits along the center.

The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

If the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=− is used, this sequence is also known as the first Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ); with the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=+ is known as the second Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ).

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

The convention recognized for the first time in international law that the conservation of biological diversity is " a common concern of humankind " and is an integral part of the development process.

Dictionaries are justified in glossing if they follow a convention of giving preferred pronunciation first, or as if they give common pronunciation first ( and if they have some way to determine this ).

The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) at the “ General Church ” level consists of a number of self-governing agencies, which focus upon specific Christian witnesses to the world that have emerged in the dialog within the movement since before the first convention in 1849.

Manufacturers joined with computer DJing pioneers to offer professional endorsements, the first being Professor Jam ( aka William P. Rader ), who went on to develop the industry's first dedicated computer DJ convention and learning program, the " CPS ( Computerized Performance System ) DJ Summit ", to help spread the word about the advantages of this emerging technology.

In comparison, in some languages the convention is to capitalize the first letter of the class name or to prefix the name with a " C " or " T " ( for example ).

Wollheim organized the first science fiction convention.

By convention the subroutine expected this and the first thing it did was to overwrite its final jump instruction with that address so that it returned.

* 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

The November 2003 convention is also noteworthy because it was the first convention of a German political party ever to use an electronic voting system.

In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered Horticultural Hall for to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con gaming convention for short.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

" 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 ..."

The detailed analysis of the quoted article shows that in order of an unlawful takeover of an aircraft to take place, and at the same time to start the application of the convention, 3 conditions should be met:

Caesar, defying convention, chose to cross the Adriatic during the winter, with only half his fleet at a time.

In 1883, the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") 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 standardization of time is a human convention based on the solar cycle or calendar.

By direct substitution, the solution to this equation can be readily shown to be the scalar Green's function, which in the spherical coordinate system ( and using the physics time convention ) is:

A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries.

On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor 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.

For the first time, Verdi attempted an opera without a love story, breaking a basic convention in 19th century Italian opera.

Under some conventions – e. g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to the enforcement mechanisms ; under most, however ( e. g. the UN conventions ), individual access is contingent on the acceptance of that right by the relevant state party, either by a declaration at the time of ratification or accession, or through ratification of or accession to an optional protocol to the convention.

In 1844, Davis was sent to the party convention for a third time, and his interest in politics deepened.

Freas was twice honored as a Guest of Honor at the Worldcon, the first time in 1982 at Chicon IV and again in 2003 at Torcon 3, although a fall suffered shortly before that convention precluded him from attending.

Using the thoroughbred racing convention of one length equaling one-fifth of a second to calculate Sham ’ s time, he also finished in under two minutes.

However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament, English had lost the sound, so the Scots convention of using CH remained, hence the modern Scottish English loch.

There are no reasons to negate Dobrawa's role in Mieszko's acceptance of Christianity ; however crediting rulers ' wives with positive influence over their husbands ' actions was a common convention at that time.

At the same time, there has been a convention that party and state offices be separated at levels other than the central government, and it is unheard of for a sub-national executive to also be party secretary.

Ministers hold office " during the pleasure of the governor-general " ( s. 64 of the Constitution of Australia ), so theoretically, the governor-general can dismiss a minister at any time, by notifying them in writing of the termination of their commission ; however, his or her power to do so except on the advice of the prime minister is heavily circumscribed by convention.

They rest on usage, custom, convention, often of slow growth in their early stages, not always uniform, but which in the course of time received universal observance and respect.

The only convention Orbison followed in his most popular songs is the time limit for radio fare in pop songs.