Sentence examples for conventions in which from inspiring English sources

"We are united," Henry Clay said, halfheartedly, at one of the Conventions in which he failed to win the nomination.

Employing elements of self-representation, participation and collaboration, Ms. Ewald departs from standard documentary conventions in which the artist is at arm's length from the subject.

In a gratifying departure from movie conventions, in which everyone's life must change forever and valuable lessons must be learned in the end, they understand themselves only a little better.

Mr. Obama's speech punctuated back-to-back political conventions in which the two parties, if nothing else, delivered radically different visions for how to end the economic malaise that has afflicted the country since 2008, and framed the two-month spring to Election Day.

There is a virtual wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, within the novel, which the reader (or "visitor") is invited to explore as they wander through what is described as a "floating Raum (space/room) outside normal spacetime conventions" in which the "history/herstory" of Bohemia – the lost homeland of the title – throughout the centuries is told.

By contrast, other complex global challenges, such as international air travel, protection of the ozone layer, and climate change are managed through global conventions in which nations meet regularly and commit to action as circumstances change.

This may be remembered as the convention in which an empty chair upstaged the nominee.

Every year, the Invention Convention holds a, well, convention, in which the gadgets are judged.

'Co-pro' also challenges the traditional customer-contractor convention in which practitioners commission research which is then conducted, packaged and delivered by academics.

In this, Snodgrass distances himself from that poetic convention in which an ostensible "you" is actually a stand-in for the reader.

This was a convention in which the presidential nominating speech focused on a story about how at Harvard, Mr. Gore once roasted a turkey in the dorm fireplace.