It isn't a conventional "historical" novel by any means - no set-piece recreation of historic events, no walk-on parts for real figures.
Labour now faces not just a conventional defeat but a historic wipeout.
Some are conventional architectural models of historic buildings, like that of a Florentine church facade.
Mutual-fund and hedge-fund managers, more bothered about making a decent return, are thus hard put to play the role of vigilantes, so the state of the market is no longer the economic signal that once it was.Indeed, in historic terms, conventional wisdom about bond markets has been turned on its head.
As the global coal industry declines, and as natural gas prices remain near historic lows, the conventional wisdom holds that utilities will switch to producing electricity from natural gas, rather than solar or wind.
But it was his tenure as a special research assistant for President Harry Truman that taught Hechler a lesson on a president's imperative to go against the Washington lobbies and conventional wisdom and make a historic stand.
In Vienna, an impasse over conventional arms threatened to derail a historic deal on nuclear weapons.
This study (PHANTASTIC) compares first-line plerixafor with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in 98 myeloma and lymphoma patients with 151 historic controls mobilised by conventional chemotherapy+G-CSF.
Working with the Beijing-based architectural group, Approach Architecture, it formed a project team, Dashila(b), which has implemented a conventional urban regeneration strategy of renovating the historic buildings and persuading designers, architects and artists to occupy them.
Senior members of Congress were already pressing for assurances from Pakistan that the American military assistance would be used to fight the insurgency, and not be siphoned off for more conventional military programs to counter Pakistan's historic adversary, India.
