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convention and goes
It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.
By convention, we assume all possible states and transitions have been included in the definition of the processes, so there is always a next state and the process goes on forever.
Roark goes on to design many landmark buildings, and rails against convention.
When the gang goes to Barbados for a convention from Ross ' work, Joey finds out about Rachel's feelings, and even though he first says nothing can happen, he changes his mind when he sees Charlie and Ross kiss, and he goes back to Rachel's room to be with her.
If a goal is scored by a player on the defending team, credit for the goal goes to the last player on the other team to have touched the puck ; this is because own goals in hockey are typically cases where the player so credited had his / her shot deflected, but this convention is used even where this isn't actually the case.
Delegates to each level of convention are initially bound to support their chosen candidate but can later switch in a process very similar to what goes on at the precinct level ; however, as major shifts in delegate support are rare, the media declares the candidate with the most delegates on the precinct caucus night the winner, and relatively little attention is paid to the later caucuses.
His cloak is draped over his left arm in a portrait convention that goes back to Augustus.
This convention goes back to the Old Irish scribal tradition ( though it is more consistently applied in Scottish Gaelic ), e. g. lathe (> latha ).
This goes against the standard sonata form convention of the day, but is something that he also does in the three big symphonies which precede the Haffner ( No's.
When he meets McMasters at an oilmen's convention, the two finally reconcile, and Sand goes to work for his old friend.
Open gaming goes on throughout any such convention, and it is common that all seating in common areas will be taken by people playing pick-up games.
Willie goes to the hotel convention, finding that his territory has been compromised and that his head hooker, Honey, has been killed after a territorial battle.

convention and back
The Trebizond emperor formally submitted in Constantinople in 1281 AD, but frequently flouted convention by styling themselves emperor back in Trebizond thereafter.
It's also common to use this technique to simultaneously portray both participants in a telephone conversation, a long-standing convention which dates back to early silents, as in Lois Weber's triangular frames in her 1913 Suspense, and culminating in Pillow Talk, where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line.
Traditionally, all members ( except for guests of honor ) must pay for their membership ; if the convention makes an adequate surplus after covering operating expenses, full or partial membership reimbursements are paid back after the convention.
Go home !” That night, NBC News had been switching back and forth between the demonstrators being beaten by the police to the festivities over Humphrey ’ s victory in the convention hall.
" In a later interview, this time for the first Trekkies film, Doohan related the story of a young fan who was contemplating suicide ; Doohan says that he convinced her to attend his next convention appearance, and later found out that his encouragement and kind words had not only saved her life, but also inspired her to go back to school and become an Electronics Engineer.
In 1933 FFA members from the local chapter arrived at the national convention in blue corduroy jackets with the FFA emblem on the back.
In 1981, Farrakhan and his supporters held their first Saviour's Day convention in Chicago, Illinois, and took back the name of the Nation of Islam.
Stone disbelieved the completeness of their offer but her close friend Reverend Antoinette Brown went to the men's convention to test its mettle ; she held delegate credentials from two temperance groups, and intended to ask that her credentials be accepted at which point she wanted to take the floor, briefly thank the body for now accepting women, and withdraw back to her pro-woman friends.
On January 28, 2008, in a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, McGuinness called on governments to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory " three strike " service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, and specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo !, Oracle, and Facebook of building " multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it ", and of being " makers of burglary kits " who have made " a thieves ' charter " to steal money from the music industry.
Forced back into reporting, she covered such events as the women's suffrage convention in 1913, and stories on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I.
* In an episode of The Simpsons, " Treehouse of Horror X ", Comic Book Guy uses the persona " The Collector " as a supervillain and kidnaps Lucy Lawless from a comicbook convention to take her back to his lair to marry her.
On 2 July 1776, at Palamutka, Austrians and Ottomans signed a border convention, Austrians giving back 59 of the previously occupied villages, and remaining with 278 villages.
To remove one, the two metal or plastic clips at each end must be pulled to the side, then the SIMM must be tilted back and pulled out ( low-profile sockets reversed this convention somewhat, like SODIMMs-the modules are inserted at a " high " angle, then pushed down to become more flush with the motherboard ).
In this capacity, seeing no hope of bringing his army back to France or of consolidating his conquests, he negotiated the convention of El-Arish ( 24 January 1800 ) with Commodore Sidney Smith, winning the right to an honorable evacuation of the French army.
Under the terms of the convention Burgoyne's army was to march to Boston, where British ships would transport it back to England, on condition that its members not participate in the conflict until they were formally exchanged.
By convention, tilting the hand so the top is closer to the pilot than the bottom results in " up " elevator, much like pulling back on a full-scale airplane control stick.
By October 1975 Bentsen, generating little national attention or significance in the polls, scaled back his campaign to a limited effort in areas of 8 to 10 states, hoping for a deadlocked convention.
Meanwhile, the late-morning labor-organized rally and march drew tens of thousands ; though the intended march route had them turning back before they reached the convention center, some ignored the marshals and joined what had become a street carnival-like scene downtown.
It was intended to be used as a good hope naming convention that would allow the ship to leave port, travel the world, and return safely to home port: hence the complete circle arriving back to its origin unhurt.
Roman imperial coin with the head of Tranquillina on the obverse, struck c. 241 when her marriage to Gordian III is depicted on the reverse in smaller scale ; the coin exhibits the obverse " head " or front and reverse " tail " or back convention that still dominates much coinage today
Although the crowd at the convention continued to back Broward, Bryan was able to name his own candidate.
To reduce costs, many would-be exhibitors stopped renting out or scaled back official COMDEX booths on the convention center floors, and set up invitation-only suites in various Las Vegas hotels.
Recently, there was public talk of the Georgia Lottery Commission opening and operating a video lottery terminal casino within the property to attract traffic and diversity, and also to bring the once lucrative but now dwindling convention trade back into the core of downtown Atlanta.

convention and medieval
Set in a fantasy medieval setting, the series ' protagonists are dragons who are beset by evil humans, reversing a common story convention.
The 14th century in European music history is dominated by the style of the ars nova, which by convention is grouped with the medieval era in music, even though it had much in common with early Renaissance ideals and aesthetics.
In the first quarter of the 15th century, examples of great merit were produced, but at a standstill in drawing and fettered by medieval convention.
Examples of such practices include compadrazgo in modern Latin America, which developed from standard medieval European Catholic practices that fell out of favor in Europe after the seventeenth century, the veneration of Saints and angels that aren't officially venerated in Catholicism, generally from the apocryphal books, such as Uriel the Archangel from the Apocalypse of Ezra ( 2 Esdras or 4 Ezra depending on naming convention ), and ritual pilgrimages in medieval and modern Europe.
Another medieval example is the literary convention of courtly love, an ideal which usually required a knight to serve his courtly lady ( in " love service ") with the same obedience and loyalty which he owed to his liege lord.
If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted ; if there are more than three houses, it is regarded as a shrunken medieval village.

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