In addition, the Republican convention doesn't have as much historic heft as the Democratic event.
This is true, but ratifying the convention won't bring this benefit.
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And even if Paul were to win every single delegate from now until the convention he wouldn't be able to win the nomination, according to analysis by CNN Political Research Director Rob Yoon.
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Some still condemn the young girl for speaking out, believing that she shouldn't have challenged convention.
"Some people can have sensational moments at the convention, but don't fool yourself, " CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.
Another lobbying wrinkle drawing a lot of attention: the 2002 campaign finance reform law, which banned unlimited "soft money" contributions to political campaigns, doesn't apply to convention fundraising committees.
You can't build your convention and much of your campaign around your service in Vietnam, and then try to say that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up.
With the Democratic National Convention just a week before the GOP convention, McCain didn't have the advantage of being able to dominate news coverage for several days before announcing his choice, as Obama did.
Tonight's vote is not binding on delegates to that convention, so this isn't really any more than a glorified opinion poll.
For years convention had it that you shouldn't operate on babies with congenital heart problems until they were older -- unless, of course, the condition was immediately life-threatening.
So, no, the cluttered convention halls of CES 2013 won't necessarily herald the arrival of five- (or even eight-) core CPUs, but we could be in store for tabs outfitted with faster quad-core chips.
That judicial opposition to torture evidence didn't just spring from the European Convention of Human Rights.
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This may surprise you, but I don t come to the Republican National Convention for the food, she said.
Richard Land, an executive with the Southern Baptist Convention, said the proposed change wouldn't be acceptable to most in the church.
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It may not come as quickly as once advertised, but it won't go all the way to the convention.
It also said Israel must comply with the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that occupying powers shouldn't transfer parts of its civilian population into territory it occupies.
The XO Tablet that One Laptop Per Child was shuttling around the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES back in January wasn't quite the final version of the company's first consumer-facing device.
The Indian government says the court's order doesn't go against the terms of the Vienna Convention.
While Kirshner won't yet divulge the musical acts or other convention highlights, he says the event is bound to be a splash.
Meanwhile, a brokered convention needs party bosses, and today there aren't any.
"Legally, there is no basis for return, they wouldn't be able to get it back under any convention, " he said.
And delegates aren't just voting on a party nominee at the convention.
She was angered by Lifeway's decision but made it clear that she didn't serve the bookstore or even the Southern Baptist Convention.
If they don't comply, the DNC says Florida would lose its convention delegates.
Perhaps coal handlers employed on diesel-electric locomotives, mafia goons controlling space at the municipal convention center or Broadway musicians paid even if the show doesn't need them.
It is so bad that more than 10 percent of the Republican members of the United States Senate aren't even bothering to attend their own party's convention.
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Bob Chaundy, former obituaries editor at BBC News, says there used to be a convention in obits, particularly in print, that you didn't speak ill of the dead, but that went by the wayside by the 1980s.
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India's foreign ministry said it doesn't see the Supreme Court's order as violating the convention.
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