But many of Mr. Trump's expected convention subjects have generated their share of false, unsubstantiated or wildly exaggerated assertions — that Mrs. Clinton "slept through" the Benghazi attack (false); that the current administration is financing illegal immigration (false); and that it is not vetting refugees from the Middle East (false).
But novelists are the grateful inheritors of an array of techniques and conventions and subject matter, which themselves are the products of social change.
Theoretical discussion focused on the conventional rules (the unities of time, place, and action, mistakenly ascribed to the authority of Aristotle), but the bienséances (conventions regarding subject matter and style) were no less important in determining the form and idiom the mature Classical theatre was to adopt.
Sept. 28-29, 2006: Congress passes the Military Commissions Act, which provides that particular violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions are subject to criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act.
Che's got an extremely shrewd style, taking topical events or everyday social conventions and subjecting them to no-nonsense scrutiny.
All bills of lading covered by the convention are subject to certain standard clauses defining the risks assumed by the carrier, which are absolute and cannot be altered by contrary agreement, and the immunities the carrier can enjoy, unless the parties agree otherwise.
Holman cautioned the Genocide Convention would subject Americans to the jurisdiction of foreign courts with unfamiliar procedures and without the protections afforded under the Bill of Rights.
In this convention, the subject of the Islamic Republic of Iran's role in the resolution efforts of the Syrian civil war as well as delivery of humanitarian aid to the nation will be discussed.
To his credit, Davies doesn't force Chris' story through a contemporary postfeminist filter, even as he's clearly concerned with the friction between a strong woman and the constraints of social convention — a subject he explored to more potent effect in "The House of Mirth" and "The Deep Blue Sea".
Note that in PS-OCT the measured optic axis orientation angles in the Stokes convention are subject to a pi-ambiguity in the Poincaré sphere [ 51].
