Sentence examples for conventions covering from inspiring English sources

On August 12th 1949 the four Geneva Conventions covering the rules of war were agreed.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which quickly recognized that passenger airliners had become political targets, responded in the decades of the 1960s and '70s with three major conventions covering "unlawful acts against civil aviation".

Most countries with established air traffic sign up to the international conventions covering hijacking, Tokyo and Montreal, and in general, the state where the aircraft is registered would be most likely to prosecute, said James heady-Pratt, head of aviation at Stewart's Law.

In the wake of the second world war, countries adopted the 1951 Refugee Convention, covering those in Europe who had already fled persecution.

He claimed the boy's rights had possibly been infringed under sections three and eight of the European convention, covering degrading treatment and the right to respect for private and family life".Other [10-year-old boys] convicted of the most serious offences under the sun do not have to sign a register.

The United Nations (UN) Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity partly addresses the control of living genetically modified organisms (GMOs) (termed living modified organisms within the convention), covering seeds (UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety [2014]).

Even as many networks are reducing their coverage of the increasingly predictable political conventions, the political blogs, which have become a fruitful alternative for individual voices, have been ablaze over the prospect of officially covering conventions for the first time.

"I've been covering conventions a lot of years, and I never remember one where so many local people were playing a role," observed Nancy Shafran, news director of KPRC, an NBC affiliate that sent six staff members to Philadelphia.

Las Vegas is home to some of the biggest meeting venues in the nation, with the Las Vegas Convention Center alone covering over two million square feet of exhibit space.

Convention officials announced that media would be barred from covering the convention except for a few "selected" members of the press who were obviously "selected" for their right-wing leanings -- among them WorldNetDaily.

He continued covering political conventions long after.