Each convention gives rise to new problems that in turn pressure us to enter into further conventions.
It took the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change almost two years after it was adopted for that agreement to enter-into-force.
Hume argues that we enter into a series of conventions to bring about practices, each of which is a solution to a problem.
In 1972, the Democratic presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm made history by having her 151.95 delegates entered into the convention record.
Finally, there's Senator Barack Obama's grand gesture of proposing that the Democratic and Republican nominees enter into a pact after the conventions to accept public financing, along with its $85 million spending limit.
Hoping that the matter would be resolved fairly and quickly, little could we imagine that the greatest minds of religion would be called upon to enter into this fray at a convention years later.
The idea of an Optional Protocol was further endorsed by the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, which called for "the elaboration (of) a draft optional protocol to the Women's Convention that could enter into force as soon as possible".
So far, only 4 countries have ratified the convention, and 22 must do so for it to enter into force.
Genting also has its sights set on New York City, where it hopes to enter into a joint venture with the state to build the country's largest convention center, at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.
You don't have to have recognition to be a state, you just have to fulfill the criteria of the Montevideo Convention which is population, territory, government and the capacity to enter into negotiation with other states.
