Sentence examples for conventions by which from inspiring English sources
"Doomed" unmasked the absurdity of the conventions by which, through assuming the role of viewers, we are both blocked and immunized from ethical responsibility.
Already with this first effort, then, Begley upended the simple literary conventions by which we presume to pin labels on elusive and shifting material.
Imagine how this malignant shame might metastasize, over time, into a boundless resentment, and how that resentment might propel this man to defy all those civil conventions by which he feels he has been devalued.
Relics of this survived into the 20th century in the United Kingdom in the conventions by which an "honourable" did not use the title on a visiting card and was not announced as such.
In addition, commonly occurring plots in Lao literature and the conventions by which they were told owed much to oral traditions of storytelling that are either specifically Lao in origin or belong to the broader traditions of mainland Southeast Asia.
What Godard understood, when making "Breathless," is that there is no contradiction between a movie conjuring an emotionally engaging "diegetic 'reality' " and also defying or mocking the conventions by which such stories are usually told.
Presumably, the idea was that a speech act type is conventional just if there exists a convention by which an utterance of a sentence of a certain kind ensures (if uptake is secured) that a speech act of that type is performed.
But the convention by which exceptional tenderness is maintained toward those sensibilities should be questioned".
In almost every convention by which the constitution was adopted, amendments to guard against the abuse of power were recommended.
Farage defied the political convention by which the main parties do not contest the seat held by the Speaker.
A precedent has also been set allowing any UK government to override the Sewel convention by which Westminster won't legislate on devolved competencies without Holyrood's permission.
