In December 1836, the Michigan territorial government, facing a dire financial crisis and pressure from Congress and President Andrew Jackson, called another convention ( called the " Frost-bitten Convention ") which accepted the compromise which resolved the Toledo War.

The group held a convention in New York City, and resolved to fight for full emancipation and enfranchisement of African Americans.

Before adjourning, the convention adopted a resolution, the conclusion of which stated: " Be it ... resolved that we call upon the citizens not only of this county but upon all the counties of the state of Arkansas, to join with us in casting the Ku Klux Klan out of the Democratic party and forcing it to come out in the open, under its own colors as a Ku Klux Klan party, instead of seeking to hide its identity within the folds of the Democratic party.

The Marxist-Leninist group in their convention held on 15 June ( 1993 ) resolved in favour of the independent existence of the Communist Party in Bangladesh, and had their new central executive committee formed with Shahidullah Chowdhury as president and Mujahidul Islam Selim as general secretary.

( The two representatives other than Hamilton left the convention before the representation issue was resolved, leaving Hamilton, and New York state, without a vote.

At the first AZA international convention in 1924, it was resolved that the organization should seek affiliation with B ' nai B ' rith.

" Thus, in proving that a framework convention was needed for tobacco control, treaty advocates invoked tobacco-related issues that could not be resolved by the actions of individual countries, such as the smuggling of tobacco and the leakage of tobacco advertisements from countries which lacked stringent regulation to those with restrictions on where and to whom tobacco companies could market their products.

In 1914, a convention of Ontario historical and patriotic groups resolved to ask the Department of the Interior " to develop a 40-acre site near Thorold as a national battlefield park commemorating the Battle of Beaver Dams.

So, on July 3, 1776 they resolved that a new convention be elected that would be responsible for drawing up their first state constitution, one that did not refer to parliament or the king, but would be a government "... of the people only.

In 1864 the Wisconsin Synod in convention resolved to provide a permanent building for the seminary.

" In view of the necessity of battling for the first principles of republican government ," resolved the Michigan state convention, " and against the schemes of aristocracy the most revolting and oppressive with which the earth was ever cursed, or man debased, we will co-operate and be known as Republicans.

This problem is fully resolved if one simply realizes that the Chinese traditionally situated the south at the top of maps and north at the bottom, a 180 degree rotation of the European convention.

A Business Meeting at which all members of Westercon may propose, debate, and vote upon changes to the convention's bylaws is usually on the second day of the convention, and, if necessary, also on the third day to deal with issues not resolved at the first meeting.

At its convention in Chicago in 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions resolved that " eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organizations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named.

However a rep at the PCB productions booth said they had planned to make an announcement during the convention, but were waiting for the right word to say so due to legal issues being resolved at the moment.

The issue of the transfer of power from incumbent to elect governments ( and hence prime ministers ) was not resolved by this Act however, and the transfer of executive powers remains an unwritten constitutional convention, known as the ' caretaker convention '.

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.

When compared by specific output, however, the convention results in large imbalances in favor of the Wankel motor.

The party convention went smoothly in his favor and Garfield won the election with a 5-to-2 margin.

Robinson ran to succeed Audrey McLaughlin as leader of the NDP at the 1995 NDP leadership convention, but withdrew in favor of Alexa McDonough after the first ballot, even though he had received the most votes at the convention and had won regional primaries in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

The convention was recessed for dinner, and as a favor to Roscoe Conkling, the party bosses announced that they would let the New York delegation pick the candidate for Vice President.

Stevenson, 60 years old, received a smattering of votes, but the convention was taken by storm by a thirty-six-year-old former representative from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan, who delivered his fiery " Cross of Gold " speech in favor of a free silver plank in the platform.

He was elected the organization's national secretary, its top post, at its September 1937 convention, which renounced the Stalinist Third International in favor of a new Trotskyist Fourth International.

Tillman's speech along with the resolutions in favor of aid to the small farmers " electified " the convention.

The idea of a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation grew in favor.

The October 2, 1937, issue of the Socialist Appeal included a convention call from the so-called " Left Wing " to " All Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party ," accusing the NEC of the party of having " betrayed the principles of socialism " by withdrawing the party's candidate for Mayor of New York in favor of LaGuardia and for having ordered " the bureaucratic expulsion of all the revolutionary members of the party who oppose and obstruct this sell-out policy.

In a crowded Democratic field of challengers, Dayton chose to bypass the state caucuses and convention in favor of the primary election.

Eventually, determined by a Methodist-Episcopal convention in 1870, the college was shut in favor of the newly developed Syracuse University ( 1871 ), over the protests of the residents of Lima.

On May 15, 1776 he voted in favor of drafting a declaration of independence, in spite of restrictions from the Maryland convention that prevented their delegates from supporting it.

The 1878 convention voted in favor of establishing state synods.

He considered it folly for South Carolina to act alone ; but he was strongly in favor of secession, and in 1850, as a delegate to the Nashville convention, he declared himself friendly to the scheme, then first agitated, of a separate southern confederacy.

They also alienated the Freedmen who were now the largest block of voters in the state, by adopting resolutions against them: their first resolution of the convention was " Resolved, that we are in favor of a White Man's Government in a White Man's country.

In the 1980s, the name " Gameron " was changed in favor of " Bandar Abbas ", following similar movements with Iranian names ( see Iran naming convention ).

As such, the convention has become little more than a coronation, a carefully staged campaign event designed to draw public attention and favor to the nominee, with particular attention to television coverage.

Clay made a tour of the South just before the Whig nominating convention and concluded that the sentiment in favor of annexation in that part of the country was not as strong as had been assumed in Washington, D. C. Acting on this belief, and against Crittenden's advice, Clay sent a letter opposing annexation to Crittenden, asking him to have it published in the National Intelligencer.

As the western governments, headed by Washington, were in favor of defining the governments of North Korea and the People's Republic of China as aggressor states, the Soviet government proposed to formulate a new UN resolution defining aggression and based on the 1933 convention.

At the 1928 convention of the ILGWU he first proposed that Sigman resign in favor of Schlesinger – a suggestion seen by many as part of a plan by Dubinsky to become the eventual head of the union.

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 ).

In a constitutional monarchy or non-executive presidency, the head of state may de jure hold ultimate authority over the armed forces but will only normally, as per either written law or unwritten convention, exercise their authority on the advice of their responsible ministers: meaning that the de facto ultimate decision making on military maneuvers is made elsewhere.

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.

In the card game contract bridge, Stayman is a convention used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a suit after making a one ( 1NT ) opening bid ; it has been adapted for use after a 2NT opening, a 1NT overcall and many other natural notrump bids.

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

" At the annual National Systems Contractors Association ( NSCA ) convention in March 2007, the Matterhorn was barred from making any loud demonstrations of its power because of concerns about damaging the building of the Orange County Convention Center.

The show was retitled Fibber McGee and Company during this interregnum, with scripts cleverly working around Molly's absence ( Fibber making a speech at a convention, etc .).

The library's wrapper functions expose an ordinary function calling convention ( a subroutine call on the assembly level ) for using the system call, as well as making using the system call more modular.

In addition to the accepted European convention, some classes have been named after a common theme in the included ships ' names, e. g., Tribal class destroyers, and some classes were implemented as an organizational tool, making traditional methods of naming inefficient.

At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to secure the annexation of the whole of Saxony to Prussia ; at Paris, after Waterloo, he failed to carry through his views as to the further dismemberment of France ; he had weakly allowed Metternich to forestall him in making terms with the states of the Confederation of the Rhine, which secured to Austria the preponderance in the German federal diet ; on the eve of the conference of Carlsbad ( 1819 ) he signed a convention with Metternich, by which — to quote the historian Treitschke — “ like a penitent sinner, without any formal quid pro quo, the monarchy of Frederick the Great yielded to a foreign power a voice in her internal affairs .”

While making the Wellstone nomination speech at the 1996 state DFL convention, Coleman stated: " Paul Wellstone is a Democrat, and I am a Democrat.

The 1949 Worldcon took place in Cincinnati, and the first Midwestcon followed in 1950, and has been held every year since, making it the second longest-running SF convention to be held in the same city, and the third oldest in the U. S.

Many unofficial conventions or " unconventions " take place at other locations and times throughout the year, making it easier for BookCrossers who cannot travel internationally for the convention to gather and share their love of books.

The highest decision making body of the party is the provincial convention held once every two years.

This separates boundary making by a combination of structure and convention from those elected from the resulting electoral areas.

Although not a leading member of that convention, he did support a strong national government, opposed slavery, the congress powers to tax import and exports, the granting the house of representatives, the senate equal power in making treaties, and the end of slavery.

At the same time, the General Assembly began its own constitution convention dubbed the Freeman's Convention, making some democratic concessions to Dorr supporters, while keeping other aspects of the 1663 Charter intact.

Colloquially known as " Geek Week ", COMDEX evolved into a major technical convention, with the industry making major product announcements and releases there.

Keating toured Australia and New Zealand in the beginning of 2012 at the state theatre in Sydney, Brisbane convention centre, Melbourne Regent Theatre, Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Canberra Royal Theatre, Wollongong Entertainment Centre, Adelaide festival theatre and at Perth Kings Park in front of 29, 000 in all making 1. 6 million pounds.

The rule then remained in place for almost the next hundred years, and often led to Democratic National Conventions which dragged on endlessly, most famously at the 1860 convention, when the convention adjourned in Charleston without making a choice and reconvening in separate groups a short time later, and the 1924 convention, when " Wets " and " Drys " deadlocked between preferred candidates Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo for 103 ballots before finally agreeing on John W. Davis as a compromise candidate.