One of the main provisions of the convention makes it illegal to torture prisoners and states that a prisoner can only be required to give their name, date of birth, rank and service number ( if applicable ).

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.

This convention makes sense when serial-port transmissions are CRC-checked in hardware, because some widespread serial-port transmission conventions transmit bytes least-significant bit first.

If is a closed bounded interval, we also allow the possibility ( this convention makes it possible to talk about " closed " simple curves, see below ).

She didn't try to comply to social convention, so I think that makes her a very modern woman.

Long-standing constitutional convention, however, has vested de facto executive authority, by the exercise of Royal Prerogative powers, in the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence, and the Prime Minister ( acting with the support of the Cabinet ) makes the key decisions on the use of the armed forces.

where F < sub > φ </ sub > here is the field needed to reduce to zero a Schottky-Nordheim barrier of unreduced height equal to the local work-function φ, and f is the scaled barrier field for a Schottky-Nordheim barrier of unreduced height φ. quantity f could have been written more exactly as f < sub > φ </ sub >< sup > SN </ sup >, but it makes this Fowler-Nordheim-type equation look less cluttered if the convention is adopted that simple f means the quantity denoted by f < sub > φ </ sub >< sup > SN </ sup > in, eq.

* Acol with Multi 2: this variant of Acol makes use of the Multi 2 diamonds convention.

From 1, 750 attendees in 1992, Anime Expo's size has increased to over 47, 000 in 2011, which makes Anime Expo the largest anime and manga convention in North America.

Each properly submitted resolution is referred to a convention committee which makes its recommendation to the House.

" The convention of the Rights of the Child makes particular reference to children's rights to participate in decisions affecting them and Summerhill, through its very approach to education, embodies this right in a way that surpasses expectation.

Subroutines in LAPACK have a characteristic naming convention which makes the identifiers short but rather obscure.

Côte d ' Ivoire also makes use of a special convention with an introductory name such as chu-instead of the second level domain name.

While its distinctive look makes it one of Hong Kong's most identifiable landmarks today, it was the source of some controversy at one time, as the bank is the only major building in Hong Kong to have bypassed the convention of consulting with feng shui masters on matters of design prior to construction.

By convention, the Prime Minister is Minister for the Civil Service and as such makes regulations regarding the service and has authority over it.

In many disciplines, the convention is that a continuous signal must always have a finite value, which makes more sense in the case of physical signals.

Normal convention dictates that the Prime Minister visits the Queen at Buckingham Palace, then makes a formal announcement that the Queen has granted a dissolution, before formally announcing the date of the election at an event later in the day.

Johnny Loftus of Allmusic stated that it " really makes you miss the focused intensity of the band's salad days ", and that because of the stylistic improvisations of the band members ' post-At the Drive-In projects The Mars Volta and Sparta " it's easy to forget about At the Drive-In's capacity for convention.

The steering axis angle, also called castor angle, is the angle that the head tube and hence the steering axis makes with the horizontal or vertical, depending on convention.

Anne Allison makes reference to the convention in Permitted and Prohibited Desires, theorizing that the exposure of women's ( or girls ') underwear in ero-manga is constructed as an " immobilizing glance ", in the sense that panchira is usually presented as a tableau in which the ( female ) object of desire is ' petrified ' by the male gaze.

This situation explains why, by convention, deaf people ( with a lower-case'd ') refers to the population who has a hearing disability whereas Deaf people ( with a capital ' D ') refers to the population who makes use of South African Sign Language and who identifies itself with the Deaf culture.

The decomposition can have different signs, depending on the Ricci curvature convention, and only makes sense if the dimension satisfies.

A challenge format makes sense for that purpose, and it fits the convention whereby contestants meet on the field with money or a trophy at stake.

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.

On October 14, 1967, Lévesque left the Liberal Party after its members refused to discuss the idea of a sovereign Quebec during its convention.

We don ’ t need Quebec .” Long-time Progressive Conservative member and political commentator Dalton Camp observed the 1994 Reform Party convention in Ottawa and was personally disgusted with what he heard, saying: " The speechifying gives off acrid whiffs of xenophobia, homophobia, and paranoia — like an exhaust — in which it seems clear both orator and audience have been seized by some private terror: immigrants, lesbians, people out of work or from out of town and criminals.

However, on June 4, 2005, Landry announced he would resign as party leader after gaining only 76. 2 % approval in a leadership confidence vote at a party convention in Quebec City.

He ran for the 1983 Quebec Liberal Party leadership convention but finished third behind Pierre Paradis and winner Robert Bourassa.

Bertrand was chosen Acting Party Leader until a leadership convention could be held and therefore became Premier of Quebec.

Although his Quebec nationalist point of view held a majority at the PCQ's convention of April 2005, who was granted voting rights was highly disputed.

The non-registered CPC-aligned PCQ held a new convention which re-started a communist French-language periodical, Clarté, and later opened an office and small reading room, launched an active website, and re-affiliated with Quebec Solidaire as an organized group.

The Supreme Court of Canada had previously ruled in the Quebec Veto Reference that Quebec never had, according to constitutional convention, a constitutional veto and that no province did.

In 1983 UFCW held its first regular convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In a Maclean's article covering the March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin mused that if Bachand had remained elected and participatory in the new party, he would have likely replaced Peter MacKay as deputy leader, and would have served as the new Conservative Party's chief Quebec lieutenant as part of Stephen Harper's attempts to woo Quebec voters into supporting the Tories.

In June 1938, it merged with Nazi and other racist clubs in Ontario and Quebec, many of which were known as Swastika clubs, to form the National Unity Party at a national convention held in Kingston, Ontario.

Diefenbaker was elected on the first ballot, and a number of Quebec delegates walked out of the convention after his victory.

Despite not having a seat, Manion won the 1938 Conservative leadership convention with backing of an " improbable coalition " of Orange Order delegates from Ontario and delegates from Quebec.

Formerly a member of the Parti libéral du Québec, René Lévesque quit the party with a few hundred others after his proposal of a sovereign Quebec associated to the rest of Canada was rejected during a party convention.

At the 1950 Quebec Liberal Party leadership convention, Marler declined nomination, and Georges-Émile Lapalme became the new party leader on May 20, 1950.

Grafftey supported Clark in the 1983 PC leadership convention, and was largely shut out of Quebec PC circles during the Mulroney years.

At its 1963 annual convention in Hull, the Ralliement des créditistes, the Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada, split from the national organization.

In May 2010 she was elected President of the Liberal Party of Canada ( Quebec ) ( LPCQ ) by the Board of directors to replace Marc Lavigne who had resigned for personal reasons a few months after having been elected by the delegates at the October 2009 convention.

* Montreal Comiccon, a comics convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada