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“ goddess of gold ” = “ lady ” ( characterised according to convention as wearing golden jewellery, the arm-kenning being a reference to falconry ).
During the Edwardian era, the practice of wearing a black waistcoat and black bow tie with a tuxedo became the convention, establishing the basis of the current black tie and white tie dress codes.
The most popular form of presenting a cosplay is by wearing it to a fan convention.
Jack Layton wearing a custom made uniform at a Star Trek convention in 1991.
Layton was famously photographed wearing his uniform at a Star Trek convention in 1991.
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.
She developed an appetite for attention, actively seeking to flout convention — whether by dancing the Charleston, or by wearing a tight, flesh-colored bathing suit to fuel rumors that she swam nude.
The embu is occasionally performed wearing a black gown hōi ( 法衣 ) at the beginning ceremony of annual taikai ( 大会 ) or convention.
De Jong had agreed to be suited with a microphone in order to assist with a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) documentary on the convention, but forgot he was wearing it and inadvertently allowed back-room negotiations with fellow candidate Dave Barrett to be recorded.
The convention of hiding the character's arms from view is shared as well with Mifune's character typically wearing his arms inside his kimono, leaving the sleeves empty.
The wearing of cap badges is a convention commonly found among military and police forces, as well as uniformed civilian groups such as the Boy Scouts, civil defence organizations, paramedical units ( e. g. the St. John Ambulance Brigade ), customs services, fire services etc.
Seder later commented that his wearing of a lapel pin that he had been given by a Secret Service agent at the Democratic National Convention earlier that year had kept him from being ejected from the convention completely.
It is therefore interestingly ironic when, in an early issue of the series, Spider travels to a religious convention and begins upending tables and destroying booths while wearing an improvised robe, a reference to Jesus throwing the money lenders out of the Temple.
God, wearing a crown similar to a papal tiara ( a common convention in Netherlandish painting ), is visible as a tiny figure at the upper left.
In the very same episode, he appeared in an animated form in comic book convention parody scene, where he was wearing Harley Quinn's costume, along with Bruce Timm wearing Joker's costume next to him.

convention and frequently
The big endian convention is also frequently used in Canada, but all three conventions are used there.
The Trebizond emperor formally submitted in Constantinople in 1281 AD, but frequently flouted convention by styling themselves emperor back in Trebizond thereafter.
: A frequently adopted convention treats the constant logical values as operators of arity zero, thus:
This is unrealistic in real life and is not frequently seen in film or on television outside US daytime serials, but it is an accepted soap opera convention sometime referred to as a Two Shot West.
Gorham frequently served as Chairman of the Convention's Committee of the Whole, meaning that he ( rather than the President of the Convention, George Washington ) presided over convention sessions during the delegates ' first deliberations on the structure of the new government in late May and June 1787.
A predestination paradox ( also called causal loop, causality loop, and, less frequently, closed loop or closed time loop ) is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction.
* Areas 3, 1 & 2-Primary Somatosensory Cortex ( frequently referred to as Areas 3, 1, 2 by convention )
Thus, by convention, one frequently writes and in terms of the period ratio and take to lie in the upper half-plane.
A convention frequently used in retail pricing was to list prices over one pound all in shillings, rather than in pounds and shillings ; for example, £ 4-18-0 would be written as 98 /- (£ 4. 90 in decimal currency ).
Consequently, Turner's leadership was frequently questioned, and in the lead up to the 1986 Liberal convention, a vote of confidence loomed large.
He collected information about each convention delegate and alternate delegate, and communicated frequently with each delegate's liaisons.
The game, which requires a relatively large number of people to play, is especially popular at game conventions such as Origins, where it frequently draws in players ( and sometimes entire families ) from other areas of the convention.
The keynote will lay down the framework for the following programme of events or convention agenda ; frequently the role of keynote speaker will also include the role of convention moderator.
The convention appears to have been partially suspended under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government of Prime Minister David Cameron, with Liberal Democrat ministers such as Vince Cable frequently publicly criticising the actions of Conservative Cabinet members.
A constitutional convention can not be held more frequently than once every six years.
As happens with many three-player trick-taking games, the game is frequently played by four using the convention that in each hand the dealer pauses.

convention and without
The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.
# 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.
In addition, in Greater China, surname stroke ordering is a convention in some official documents where peoples ' names are listed without hierarchy.
It is worth noting that convention does not give the Governor-General the ability to dissolve either the House of Representatives or the Senate without advice.
For the first time, Verdi attempted an opera without a love story, breaking a basic convention in 19th century Italian opera.
The court considered that the two-years period of " fire at will " ( without any legal motive ) was " unreasonable ", and contrary to convention no.
In linguistics the term orthography is often used to refer to any method of writing a language, without judgment as to right and wrong, with a scientific understanding that orthographic standardization exists on a spectrum of strength of convention.
Even without this consideration, refusing such a request would arguably create a constitutional crisis, as it is considered a fairly strong constitutional convention that the head of state always grants a parliamentary dissolution.
However, the calling of the convention was itself not without controversy.
Republicans opposed the ratification process, and were infuriated that the Democrats were attempting to revise the entire constitution without calling a constitutional convention, as had been called for the state's two previous constitutions.
Marshall appealed, but the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the decision in a judgment which stated that the Constitution of Indiana could not be replaced in total without a constitutional convention, based on the precedent set by Indiana's first two constitutions.
27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.
The first call for a convention was made over issues of mounting taxation without representation in Parliament and because of the British blockade.
For one thing, he began the 1896 convention without any official status — the Democratic National Committee, which made the initial determination of which delegations would be seated, had chosen the pro-gold Nebraskans to represent their state.
But he won the nomination without the votes of the gold delegates, most of whom either left the convention or refused to vote.
By convention, if the most significant digit can be either 0 or 1, it is termed a half-digit ; if it can take higher values without reaching 9 ( often 3 or 5 ), it may be called three-quarters of a digit.
And let be the Fermi energy calculated for the finite solid without considering surface distortion effect, when taking the convention that the potential at is zero.
After that, the convention went smoothly for Johnson without a searing battle over civil rights.
The conference was formally deferred on two occasions due to reluctant behavior of the governments of various nations to act on such a short notice without the knowledge of the proposed convention.
(" Bavli ") By convention, a reference to the " Gemara " or " Talmud ," without further qualification, refers to the Babylonian version.
The person who fills this role is selected on the advice of the Prime Minister ; " advice " in this sense is a choice generally without options since it would be highly unconventional for the Prime Minister's advice to be overlooked, a convention that protects the monarchy.
: 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.

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