Lawmakers have been conspicuously absent at convention-related events (at least those open to the press).
The convention-goers spend money on meals and hotel rooms, and so they create employment for chefs and bellhops.
Rashomon, featuring a feral bandit and stiff convention-bound couple, was criticized for portraying a backward Japan to the world.
But the Democrats can take heart in that they had a very, very successful convention -- with four "A" speeches in a row.
Ecclestone -- never one to kowtow to convention -- may have missed the Shia protesters carrying toy machine guns and wearing motor racing overalls.
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There have been no convention-related arrests, Zubricki said, and any suspicious packages that have come to the attention of authorities have all been cleared.
Stop planning and defy convention - it really looks like fun.
It was as formal and as convention-bound as an eighteenth-century quadrille.
Kerry's address -- the finale of the convention -- was enthusiastically received by the delegates, who interrupted him with more than two dozen standing ovations.
Despite attempts to attract women, most convention-goers in St Louis were white men over the age of 40 a segment of the population on the decline.
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Joe Biden was fired up. (Applause.) And I meant what I said at the convention -- I could not have a better Vice President.
Romney's convention-night speech put into sharp focus how much Republicans think November's election will boil down to whether voters think they're better off economically under Obama.
Similarly in 2012, Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis will likely have smaller displacement effects than Super Bowls contested in warmer climates that annually attract general tourist or convention-specific business.
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Just a fortnight ago, in a convention-defying interview, Mr Weizman said he would campaign for peace without inhibition, and threatened to resign if the referendum went against the government.
The largest was an Alcoholics Anonymous convention attended by about 50, 000 people in 2000, said Laura McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Meet Minneapolis, one of the Twin Cites region's convention-and-visitor's organizations.
The flaw in this argument is that if Manchester wants to attract hordes of tourists and convention-goers, vandalising one of its most famous buildings would be a strange way to do it.
On the business side, consultancy firm KPMG - in the shape of its special global adviser Yvo de Boer, former head of the UN climate convention - has highlighted the pledges of the private sector.
On Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. officials consider them unlawful combatants with no rights under the Geneva Convention -- but he said they would be treated in a manner "reasonably consistent" with those accords.
Gore had previously separated himself from Clinton by choosing Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate and then by declaring he was his own man at the Democratic Convention--followed by that long smooch with his wife.
Collecting signatures from renegade leaders of pariah states -- instead of policing and enforcing existing, and violated, agreements like the 1925 convention banning first-use of chemical arms or the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention -- is irresponsible escapism.
Two, as he said very clearly in his convention -- rather in his speech on Tuesday night in Chicago and has been clear all along, as part of his plan, he is committed to reforming the tax code.
The storm has forced last-minute changes in the convention's announced schedule: If the convention -- originally scheduled to start Monday -- commences by Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's speech will probably move to that night from Wednesday.
They must choose from a list of "experts" to which every state party to the convention -- not just China and Russia but other unfriendly nations such as Cuba and Burma -- can contribute.
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While the Super Bowl can draw 100, 000 people or more, the political convention is a multiple-day event during which the convention -- and the Twin Cities -- will be watched by a broader audience around the world, Mr. Canton said.
His technique is convention-shattering, death-defying, mesmerizing.
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What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
Twelve years after giving a Democratic convention keynote address as the governor of Georgia, Miller returns to Madison Square Garden to deliver another prime-time speech at the Republican convention -- this time as a Democratic senator who has turned away from his party and in full support of the president.
One interesting thing will be whether the president accepts the agenda of "key issues" laid out at the Democratic convention -- things like Iraq, the military, health care, the economy -- or if he tries to shift the conversation and make other issues such as social security or education more important.
For this off-site analysis, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - the implementing agency of the Chemical Weapons Convention - has established an international network of highly competent so-called "designated laboratories" that routinely undergo proficiency testing to ensure that their standard of analysis is up to the needs.
He said Mr Nicklinson was seeking a court declaration based on his right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention - in effect saying that in his circumstances, his right to life included the right to end his life in a humane manner of his choosing.
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