convention
Example Sentences
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And both Reform and the Greens are willing to push the conventions of what traditional UK politicians would find acceptable - or what they believe would make them electable.
From BBC
The combined cost of the RSA headquarters office tower in Mobile and the renovation of the hotel—hailed as a showpiece for the convention market—was $162 million.
At 61, she took off for Europe, later writing that she hoped perhaps with an ocean between her and Anthony, “I should hear no more of calls, conventions, appeals or petitions.”
When a convention of Spiritualists was held in Cleveland in February 1852, hundreds of articles about the rapid spread of spirits were written in papers from Bangor, Maine, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
From Literature
So the conventions set out in the parliamentary bible Erskine May, which have long clipped the wings of debate about the monarch and their family, didn't apply to Mountbatten-Windsor.
From BBC
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