Sentence examples for and conventions in the from inspiring English sources
François Hollande, the man who wooed the French with the promise to be a "normal" president, has decided to depart from rules and conventions in the name of normality.
The Hong Kong Tourism Board got a budget of 150 million Hong Kong dollars from the government to increase promotions for meetings and conventions in the next five years.
While Beijing will always draw the top-level visits, like the trip last May by President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Macao offers training programs and conventions in the culturally friendly environment of China's Mediterranean corner, where Portuguese, is, officially at least, on equal footing with Chinese.
That was the assessment given Wednesday by Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board chief Ernest Wooden Jr., who made a pitch for a greater investment in the city to draw more tourists and conventions in the next few years.
One of the most challenging aspects of this project was the fact that different genome annotation centers use different styles and conventions in the phrasing of transporter annotations.
Barcelona attracts some of the biggest fairs and conventions in the world, avoid these dates to travel to Barcelona, as accommodation will be fully booked or extremely expensive.
Like most of the Coens' comedies, "Burn After Reading" is something of a shaggy sendup of an established genre and conventions, in this case the espionage flick.
The so-called "furry fandom" itself is relatively new, born out of sci-fi and comic conventions in the 80s and then disseminated via fanzines and the internet.
Mr. Millet attended Saab dealer and owner conventions in the United States and abroad, traveling as recently as last summer to meetings in Sweden and Cincinnati.
But we also exhibit at a lot of conventions, such as the London Comic Con, and similar conventions in the US and France, which helps to build our brand.
Yet, listening to the endless drum beat of speeches from both the Republican and Democratic conventions in the past week, it seemed they were mimicking the Pythons' finest work.
