• Both of these substances have well-established conventions for their use, and these conventions limit their social side-effects.

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  • And that means we have to evolve conventions for making those decisions.

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  • But he will soon be competing not just with Perot but also with the Olympics and then the major-party conventions for airtime and oxygen.

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  • This crude, spontaneous style shattered existing design conventions for a lasting break with tradition, although the free spirit was lost to the even greater computer-graphics revolution of the '80s.

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  • Senegal has ratified international conventions for the protection of women's rights, and voted in 1999 a law, which amended the Penal Code by introducing other forms of violence and emphasizing sanctions.

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  • The Director-General concluded by encouraging the Russian authorities to upsacale their cooperation with UNESCO, notably by ratifying the Conventions for the diversity of cultural expressions, the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage as well as the underwater cultural heritage.

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  • Westerns, Regency romances, film noir: those are genres kinds of stories with specific categories of subjects and conventions for their content and presentation. (Stories about superheroes are a genre, too.) Prose fiction, sculpture, video: those, like comics, are media forms of expression that have few or no rules regarding their content other than the very broad ones imposed on them by their form.

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  • Military conventions, for example, require that attacks distinguish between civilian and military targets.

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  • The Geneva Conventions, for instance, are shown coming about when one branch of the peace movement stopped trying to abolish war, and worked with governments to humanise the way that wars were fought.

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  • In 1957, the play was seen as a radical departure from Broadway conventions, both for its focus on social problems and for its extended dance scenes.

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  • Instead they argue that the Conventions are adequate for genuine wars, and that the Additional Protocols above all have brought invaluable protection to civilians caught up in conflicts.

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  • From his home outside Toledo, Ohio, Winnie is constantly traveling to conventions, looking for obscure items on the Internet or swapping stories, and occasionally Spider-Man collectibles, with his fellow collectors.

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  • Behind the gloss you see on TV--the rousing keynote speeches, a candidate's formal acceptance of the nomination, the unwavering celebration of a particular party--the conventions are schmoozefests for business and lobbying interests.

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  • While some have a development agenda more explicitly built into them than others, all of the Conventions have implications for development both in terms of how they can contribute to it and in the impact that development has on culture.

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  • It is as if the naming conventions cease to exist for a time.

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  • My most meaningful relationships with my family and my friends are mediated by norms, conventions and (wait for it) love rather than market prices.

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  • When it comes to conventions, travel expenses for those inside North America are deductible if you can show that your attendance benefits your trade or business (those held outside North America are subject to special rules).

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  • Time magazine, for example, has formed a partnership with Foursquare, a location-based mobile check-in service, for the conventions, in which Time has provided content that users can unlock when they get to certain locations in Tampa and Charlotte.

    WSJ: Online Media Will Star at the Conventions

  • Conduct periodic consultations of member states for the implementation of the concerned Conventions, including the Convention against Discrimination in Education, prepare documents for the CR, the Executive Board and the General conference.

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  • At both the Republican and Democratic conventions, celebrities stood up for their preferred candidate with albeit mixed reviews.

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  • The CBD website in turn hosts intergovernmental platforms for the Rio Conventions and the Biodiversity-related Conventions .

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  • Party members in each state select delegates to go to the national conventions to represent their choices for presidential candidates.

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  • It arrives amid the conventions during a banner year for natural gas.

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  • International conventions are an essential tool for protecting marine biodiversity, given the lack of physical barriers in the ocean to confine species to a single zone.

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  • There are millions of us who consider dignity and decorum, a respect for rules and conventions, the keeping of promises, telling the truth and accepting responsibility to be attributes of a civilised society.

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  • The Geneva Conventions were drafted by civilized countries for the treatment of civilized soldiers.

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  • How are delegates in your state chosen for the national party conventions?

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  • If Uruguay does approve the controlled legal sale of cannabis, that will put it in breach of the UN's drug-control conventions, which prohibit drug sales for non-medical use.

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  • Conventions have been ridiculed as useless for years now.

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  • Neither McCain nor Obama becomes the official nominee until the party national conventions, but that is largely a formality, and by the time of the conventions, both will have picks for the vice president's job.

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