Sentence examples for conventions meaning from inspiring English sources

His bill embraces a similar approach, which would sidestep direct references to the Geneva Conventions' meaning.

More than 95 percent of their receipts so far are for use only through the late-summer nominating conventions, meaning they still have far to go to fill their general election bank accounts.

Britain is also not subject to the 1954 Caracas Convention, meaning it does not have to recognise diplomatic asylum.

Georgia is a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, meaning people requesting international protection in the country have access to the government's asylum procedures.

By that nomenclature, it now appears that Mr. Obama is on track for a "birdie" convention, meaning that he would exit the conventions in a somewhat stronger position than where he entered them.

To the sociologist, the legitimacy that distinguishes between coercive power and authority rests not on some theoretical normative foundation but rather on de facto social convention (actual social convention, meaning here that legitimacy is not whether an actor's behaviour satisfies some ideal ethical norm but whether it fits with social norms held in common by real people in society).

Further, in some of the swing states, there have been as many as a dozen poll releases since the convention, meaning that any one new poll usually won't shift the FiveThirtyEight forecast all that much, especially if the firm conducting the survey is rated as being of middling quality.

The benchmark is that we might expect Mr. Obama's polling just after Charlotte to be one or two points better than it was before either party's convention, meaning that he'd be ahead in national polls by three or four points.

Basic translation problems account for some of it: under Enver Hoxha's Maoist regime, Albania never signed a copyright convention, meaning no respectable publishing house would buy translation rights, and the lack of English-Albanian translators has continued the problem: most of Kadare's work available in English comes through David Bellos's translations from the French.

The Supreme Court had ruled that the commissions contravened the Geneva Convention, meaning they had to be modified in 2006, before the political appointments that Davis identifies were made.

As a UNESCO World Heritage site, Virunga is technically protected from such invasive exploitation by international convention, meaning that Kinshasa will have to declassify part or all of the park to get at its oil.