* BS 308 a now deleted standard for engineering drawing conventions, having been absorbed into BS 8888.

Alexander Campbell had concerns that holding conventions would lead the movement into divisive denominationalism.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

The following major conventions apply to the Falkland Islands and should be taken into account during the drafing of legislation:

They can be classified into two categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as the United Nations General Assembly, which are not legally binding although they may be politically so as soft law ; and conventions, which are legally binding instruments concluded under international law.

SRM is broken down into “ seasons ” which are made up of up to 24 individual missions that can be played at conventions or at home.

Over time, customs, routines, conventions, rules and such can evolve into traditions, but that usually requires that they stop having ( primarily ) a practical purpose.

I find, from looking into the amendments proposed by the State conventions, that several are particularly anxious that it should be declared in the Constitution, that the powers not therein delegated should be reserved to the several States.

* Sci-fi Action-Sharing many of the conventions of a science fiction film, sci-fi action films emphasizes gunplay, space battles, invented weaponry, and other sci-fi elements weaved into action film premises.

As they create, they may: explore beyond that which is known or obvious, push against barriers, change or discard conventions, and / or break into new territory.

Elizabeth regarded the treaty of Westminster ( 16 January 1756, whereby Great Britain and Prussia agreed to unite their forces to oppose the entry into, or the passage through, Germany of the troops of every foreign power ) as utterly subversive of the previous conventions between Great Britain and Russia.

Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

The conventions do not clearly divide people into combatant and non-combatant roles.

During the Empire, superficially the naming conventions appear to dissolve into anarchy.

Another example is the Allied re-designation of German POWs ( under the protection of the Geneva conventions ) into Disarmed Enemy Forces ( allegedly unprotected by the Geneva conventions ), many of which then were used for forced labor such as clearing minefields.

Like many other patronymics in other languages, with the formalization of naming conventions by laws in the late modern contemporary age many turned into surnames.

In addition, cortex may be classified on the basis of gross topographical conventions into four lobes: the Temporal lobe, Occipital lobe, Parietal lobe and Frontal lobe:

It is up to security designers, architects and analysts to balance security controls against risks, taking into account the costs of specifying, developing, testing, implementing, using, managing, monitoring and maintaining the controls, along with broader issues such as aesthetics, human rights, health and safety, and societal norms or conventions.

His critics charge that he was not significantly troubled when faced with the prospect of war and death for thousands, turned his search for undisputed rule into a series of conflicts throughout Europe and ignored treaties and conventions alike.

Since the 1970s, a number of international conventions have come into effect that try to limit the participation of children in armed conflicts, nevertheless the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reports that the use of children in military forces, and the active participation of children in armed conflicts is widespread.

The conventions of blackface also lived on unmodified at least into the 1950s in animated theatrical cartoons.

The attendance of some conventions numbers into the hundreds of thousands, with the largest-ever gathering held in New York in 1958 at Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds with a peak attendance exceeding 250, 000.

" The latter was practiced by setting up church " conventions " in various cities worldwide to which their various congregations had to attend, leaving homes and booking into hotel-type accommodation.

Simultaneously, Bonn is establishing itself as a national and international centre of meetings, conventions and conferences, many of which are directly related to the work of the United Nations.

The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament.

Some believe that the word " chicamo " somehow became " chicano ", which ( unlike " chicamo ") reflects the grammatical conventions of Spanish-language ethno-and demonyms, such as " americano " or " castellano " or " peruano ".

These conventions allow some operators in both languages to serve both as predicates ( answering a boolean-valued question ) and as returning a useful value for further computation, but in Scheme the value '() which is equivalent to NIL in Common Lisp evaluates to true in a boolean expression.

During the Counter-Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church searched for religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate.

When letters of an alphabet are used for this purpose of enumeration, there are certain language-specific conventions as to which letters are used.

According to his paradigm, when conventions are considered absolute realities, they contribute to dogmatism, which in turn leads to conflict.

Generic conventions, which are very closely tied to a particular artistic genre, and may even help to define what that genre is.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist and his Master ), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

In going beyond mere storytelling to exploring the individualism of his characters, Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary conventions of the chivalric romance literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that redound to the knightly virtues of the hero.

In the Philippines, titles and names of occupations usually follow Spanish naming conventions which utilise gender-specific terms.

The absence of modern literary conventions, which are an aid to comprehension, was an early and persistent source of errors affecting transmission of the text.

While in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor learned about maritime conventions developing there, which were the beginnings of what would become admiralty law.

Men wrote and edited most previous science fiction fanzines, which typically published articles reporting on trips to conventions, and reviews of books and other fanzines.

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

According to international conventions governing the laws of war, small arms are defined ( with some exceptions ) as firearms which fire a projectile not in excess of 15 mm ( 0. 60 inches ) in diameter.

The life and works of Giulio Alenio are the subject of several conventions which have taken place in 1994 and 2010.

Loren Miller proposed his Maximum Game Fun principle as a basis for gaming, which soon became a game system in its own right, David Dunham proposed his PenDragon Pass system, a nearly freeform game system, and several ambitious freeform games were played at conventions, such as Home of the Bold with up to 80 participants.

The Washington conference concluded in February with the adoption of the General Treaty of Peace and Amity of 1923, which had eleven supplemental conventions.