Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore.

but in this respect it was merely following the accepted Chinese convention for all maps.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly the convention parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – " I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."

The Mayan Palace course was designed by Pedro Guericia and an economical course called the Club de Golf Acapulco is near the convention center.

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

A convention was called at Borja to develop a consensus, but there Peter so alienated his own partisans with perceived arrogance that they abandoned him, yet were unwilling to accept Ramiro.

Chronologically the first of the passed convention in the Tokyo-Hague-Montreal system was the Tokyo Convention.

The wall follows typical Mycenaean convention in that it followed the natural contour of the terrain and its gate was arranged obliquely, with a parapet and tower overhanging the incomers ' right-hand side, thus facilitating defense.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

In retrospect the name change was unfortunate, not only because the Greek roots alone do not reveal the anode's function any more, but more importantly because, as we now know, the Earth's magnetic field direction on which the " anode " term is based is subject to reversals whereas the current direction convention on which the " eisode " term was based has no reason to change in the future.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

An example would be swapping 3M LIBOR being paid with prior non-business day convention, quarterly on JAJO ( i. e. Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct ) 30, into FMAN ( i. e. Feb, May, Aug, Nov ) 28 modified following ・

Taiwan, among a few other countries, also received a " Mark IV " version of the console ( most likely a modified Master System II ) and the Mark naming convention was further extended to the Mega Drive / Genesis (' Mark V ').

In 1560 he was appointed — though a layman — superintendent of the reformed church of Scotland for Angus and Mearns, and in 1572 he gave his assent to the modified episcopacy proposed by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton at the Leith convention.

Where Unix programs that use dotfiles are ported to Windows, they are sometimes modified to accept some other naming convention ; for example, GNU Emacs permits its configuration file to be named < tt > _emacs </ tt > instead of < tt >. emacs </ tt >.

Before 2003, when a modified one member, one vote ( OMOV ) system was adopted, every biennial New Democratic Party convention, since 1961, was a leadership convention.

It was originally written for W. H. Smith Bookcase magazine and was then slightly modified and extended, being published again in the programme of the OryCon 15 convention, and then again in The Wizards of Odd, a compilation of fantasy short stories.

When the federal Liberal government changed the election finances law, soon after Jack Layton won the NDP's leadership in the modified OMOV election on January 23, 2003, the party implemented full OMOV for its next leadership convention.

All vintage accounts for the same year were assumed placed in service in the middle of the year ; however, a taxpayer could elect the modified half year convention with potentially favorable results.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

The term convention is also used in international law to refer to certain formal statements of principle such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

Lord Crewe announced publicly that the government's wish to create peers should be treated as formal " ministerial advice " ( which, by convention, the monarch must obey ) although Lord Esher argued that the monarch was entitled in extremis to dismiss the government rather than take their " advice ".

A meeting of disgruntled Michigan Whigs, Democrats, and abolitionists at the Stones ' Kalamazoo residence set the date for an anti-slavery convention in Jackson, Michigan, which resulted in the formal birth of the Republican Party.

which is quite convenient, but one must be aware of the distinction between formal summation ( a mere convention ) and actual addition.

Lord Crewe, Liberal leader in the Lords, announced publicly that the government ’ s wish to create peers should be treated as formal “ ministerial advice ” ( which, by convention, the monarch must obey ) although Esher argued that the monarch was entitled in extremis to dismiss the Government rather than take their “ advice ”.

By constitutional convention, the Prime Minister holds formal power to advise the Sovereign.

The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN or ICZN Code ) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.

These powers are formal, and by convention, the President uses these powers according to the advice of the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister.

When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.

Some political scientists believe that reserve powers are a good thing in that they allow for a government to handle an unforeseen crisis and that the use of convention to limit the use of reserve powers allows for more gradual and subtle constitutional evolution than is possible through formal amendment of a written constitution.

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 .”

In some states, notably those Commonwealth of Nations states that follow the Westminster system and whose political systems derive from British constitutional law, most government functions are guided by constitutional convention rather than by a formal written constitution.

The convention will be known as the first of the National Association of Base Ball Players although there is yet no annual commitment or formal organization.

The result of this call was a undelegated gathering of individuals held in November in Indianapolis which was more akin to an organizational conference than a formal convention.

No new party was formally established, but a governing Executive Committee was named for the prospective " National Independent Party ," with the body assigned the task of composing a declaration of principles and issuing another call for a formal founding convention.

* Federal Convention ( Germany ), a formal convention that elects the country's Federal President

Even in such situations, however, the convention must still take place before the candidate can assume the formal and permanent leadership of the party, even if they are already serving as the party's interim leader.

These ' criteria ' are not based on formal arguments, but rather are the result of convention and professional practice.

At the 1996 convention, a formal set of operating policies for the council was signed and the first officers were elected.

If there was any justification for this departure from convention, it lay in the fact that most people previously appointed to the position already held a formal title – such as a British knighthood or peerage, or a military rank – whereas Hollingworth's previous style, " The Most Reverend ", derived from his former position as the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and was considered inappropriate for a person holding an official position in a country which maintains a formal separation between church and state.

The formal purpose of such a convention is to select the party's nominee for President, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals known as the platform and adopt the rules for the party's activities, including the presidential nominating process for the next election cycle.

The final day of the convention usually features the formal acceptance speeches from the nominees for President and Vice President.