Sentence examples for convention date from inspiring English sources

Mr Obama's convention date would turn out to be ideal, though, if he really nails it.

Redfern said they would expect to announce a location about 18 months before the convention date.

The following member states have signed the ICSID convention (date in parentheses), but have not ratified it.

The convention dates back to 1858 and an international maritime incident.

That convention dates from when monarchs and their generals needed discretion to ward off imminent threats to national security.

(A list of convention dates since 1856, compiled by The New Yorker's Yvette Siegert, may be found here).

Under a convention dating back to 1728, the monarch must consent to any parliamentary bill affecting the crown.

Quoting from the guide to parliamentary procedure, Erskine May, Bercow said by convention, the question "may not be brought forward again during the same session" and that it was a "strong and longstanding convention" dating back to 1604.

On Monday, Bercow invoked a parliamentary convention dating to 1604 that he said banned putting a measure to a vote in Parliament if it has already been rejected in the same session of the legislature.

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.

It is all very well for some MPs and commentators to mock Bercow for reviving a convention dating back to 1604, but what it stated was no more than common sense: no prime minister before May has ever attempted to get through the Commons a vote as historically and comprehensively rejected as hers has been, by the simple process of attrition.