Mr. Rumsfeld has said that the American military in Iraq was abiding by the Geneva Conventions, and that the mistreatment was the work of a terrible few.
Once, during the 20th century's interwar years, the first great age of detective fiction, they were the genre's stars, often equipped with comical verbal tics or curious sideline interests, but always abiding by the ironbound conventions of classic crime fiction.
Mr Kosirnik, who was the organisation's delegate in the Rhodesian conflict in the 1970s, says the two black guerrilla movements fighting the white regime formally committed themselves to abiding by the Geneva Conventions, and confirmed their pledge even after a band of roving guerrillas murdered three Red Cross workers.
Are we abiding by the rule of law?
In her richly textured lace, and abiding by a now old-fashioned convention of a matching dress and coat, Obama appeared to be "channelling" the stately look favoured by Barbara and Laura Bush on state occasions, rather than the sleek, pared down image of Jackie Kennedy, to whom she has often been compared.
And I believe that the US is abiding by the spirit of the Geneva Convention, despite the casual, ill-considered remarks of our rough-hewn secretary of defence, among others.
The scoop flouted one of the most abiding royal conventions: The queen's confidences must remain just that — confidential.
"Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups, are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva conventions," Maurer writes.
"We have a scientific research programme in accordance with the convention on whaling and we are strictly abiding by the treaty obligations," government spokesman Noriyuki Shikata told the BBC.
I don't agree with the rule, but I'm abiding by it".
Democrats, whose attachment to campaign reforms is as episodic as McCain's, argue that having made such uses of promised matching funds, McCain is committed to taking them and abiding by spending limits -- which would virtually silence his campaign until the September convention.
