Sentence examples for a normal convention from inspiring English sources

But this is not a normal convention and Trump is not a normal nominee.

In a normal convention season, most politicians are working every lever to try to get a prime speaking slot and bathe themselves in the glow of the party's nominee.

It was originally set up to be a normal convention with 157 delegates in a non-election year, but because of mounting antagonism between a traditionalist and a libertarian faction, it became clear some months before the conventions that personal positions could be at stake.

As Gustav forced a scaledown of the normal convention hoopla, McCain's vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor, appears to have energised the Republican base.

In a twist on the normal convention finale, the prominent figures — donors, elected officials and media celebrities like Dan Rather — looked somewhat like the interlopers.

At a 1996 party thrown by Sean Connery, after prompting from Albert Finney, he asked the actor why he had broken with normal convention by installing a pay bar.

The normal convention is that instrumentalists in an opera sit behind a music stand.

Yet the magistrate acceded to a request for Pistorius to spend the weekend at a police station rather than the grimmer surroundings of prison, as would be the normal convention.

In a further indication that the bill could receive a rough ride, Lord Bassam, Labour's chief whip in the Lords will abandon the normal convention that holders of his office do not enter legislative debates, when he delivers a highly personal speech invoking his childhood experience of being brought up on a council estate in Essex.

This is also a manifestation of the normal-ordering convention chosen for the theory.

In normal convention, you want your team to win.