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Convention

Convention meaning

A meeting or gathering. | A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates. | The convening of a formal meeting.

Example sentences (20)

The Convention Director Mrs. Abha Dwivedi and the convention committee volunteers worked tirelessly to organize the convention and ensure comfort of the delegates.

A select few local shops are allowed to attend, but the highlights of the convention are well-known artists who are booked for the convention. citation citation Fantasy Con hosted its first convention, the first of its kind, in Salt Lake City in 2014.

Convention These were the convention's nomination tally: When he made his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Mondale said: "Let's tell the truth.

Delegates were present from the District of Columbia, and on the first contested roll call vote in convention history, the convention voted 126-153 to deprive the District of Columbia of its voting rights in the convention.

Niven pg. 314. South Carolina had boycotted the entire convention, but a single South Carolinian was admitted by the convention as the state's delegation, and he cast all nine of the state's votes at the convention.

An Article V Convention is a U.S. Constitutional Convention that has not happened for 235 years!

Delegates to the AFL convention heard from NDP leader Rachel Notley, who has tested positive for COVID-19 and could not attend the AFL convention in person (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).

In an address in the US last week, Mrs Braverman argued that multiculturalism had "failed" and called for international treaties such as the UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) should be reformed.

After a brief debate following the disastrous fire, city leaders decided to notify the Democrats that their convention could indeed take place in a newly constructed Convention Hall.

And at the beginning of that convention a Protem chairman was selected, a convener was determined by the members of that convention and we proceeded with the orders of the day.

An early attempt at today’s convention by two delegates to switch the convention to a secret-ballot vote was ruled out of order, and the idea was not brought up again.

An example of a treaty under this human rights system that SVG has ratified is the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará).

Democratic National Convention, where the president would otherwise be formally nominated, comes after Ohio’s ballot deadline of Aug. 7. The party’s convention is scheduled for Aug. 19-22.

Dr. Usi argued hard against the party’s elective convention in Mzuzu in November saying that the convention was against the constitution of the party.

He was once again greated with cacophonous applause as he entered the convention hall just after 9pm local time, with supporters in the crowd at the convention hall mimicking the dance moves he has been known to bust out at campaign rallies.

The following month, the Teamsters gave $45,000 to both the Republican and Democratic convention funds, with officials saying the goal was to make sure its rank-and-file members are heard at the convention.

The panel is taking place six miles from the main convention action, at a satellite location in Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center.

The Republican National Convention takes place from July 15 to 18 and the Democratic National Convention from August 19 to 22.

Though the Democratic National Convention isn’t until August, this year’s roll call, which usually takes place on the convention floor, is set to take place virtually, with ballots cast as soon as next Monday.

A day earlier, China's foreign ministry issued a statement of protest over what it called intrusions into the Houston consulate that violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the China-US Consular Convention.