Sentence examples for existing conventions from inspiring English sources

Its condemnation of chemical warfare would add a parallel blue line to the existing, oft-cited red line deriving from existing conventions and declarations.

Malaysia was unimpressed by a note from the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, affirming Mr Cumaraswamy's role and his immunity from prosecution under existing conventions.

The military also contends that existing conventions on terrorism need to be updated, saying that most attacks are handled after the fact as police matters.

It is considered that variations in musical styles, for example, result from the emergence of new rules and/or from the shifting of existing conventions for music making.

It promotes stimulating audiovisual projects (documentary and fiction film, video, installations, etc). that challenge existing conventions and offer critical and alternative views about Palestine and Palestinians.

At the symposium in Prague last week, a group of international experts again discussed possible reform mechanisms: partial decriminalisation under the existing conventions, and explicit decriminalisation or strict government regulation under amended conventions.

It would be linked by a broad, enclosed bridge over 34th Street to the existing convention center.

"A lot of these second-tier cities have spent a lot of money building new convention centers or adding onto existing convention centers," said Kevin Iwamoto, vice president of enterprise strategy at the online event management firm StarCite.

But the effort to reach that goal has cost St. Louis a 614-room hotel in mint condition, the only large hotel adjacent to the existing convention center and one for which conventions were already scheduled.

Over the past two decades, many cities have built exhibition halls or expanded existing convention centers in the hope of attracting professional associations and similar groups, whose attendees typically spend four or five days in a city.

Lord Lester, in his submission to the committee examining the draft defamation bill, said: "A Privacy Act would probably do little more than codify the existing convention … as to how the balance should be struck between free speech and personal privacy".