Sentence examples for Long-standing conventions from inspiring English sources

Asked about current relations between ministers and civil servants, Mr Riddell said they were "strained" in some departments but long-standing conventions were still being abided by.

Ministers must bring forward legislation if they want to change long-standing conventions, he says, describing the government's proposed approach as "sharp practice and beyond contempt".

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A long-standing convention holds that politics stops at the ocean's edge.

It would be helpful if she would respect that long-standing convention".

Defying long-standing convention, a result will be that the Times's front page cannot have the newest material in the paper.

They mark an end to a long-standing convention that issues of party funding are agreed on a cross-party basis.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been accused accused of attempting to sabotage government plans to reach a new constitutional settlement for the UK after it ripped up a long-standing convention not to vote on English-only laws in Westminster.

The Tories have said they will not vote against the legislation outright a long-standing convention, known as the Salisbury doctrine, means that peers seldom oppose a government's manifesto commitments directly.

In his ruling, Bercow quoted from the guide to parliamentary procedure that a question "may not be brought forward again during the same session" and that it was a "strong and long-standing convention" dating back to 1604.

Yet in the end, he circled back to long-standing convention, picking a white male with an impeccable résumé, presumably conservative but not so outspoken as to provoke an all-out fight.