This position is compatible with holding that in special cases linguistic communities have instituted conventions for particular speech acts such as appointing and excommunicating.
The U.S. Justice Department has dramatically increased its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; the U.K. has passed its own stringent Bribery Act; and the Organization for Economic Coöperation and Development has instituted a convention against bribery, and several dozen countries — including Israel — have signed it.
The U.S. Justice Department has dramatically increased its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; the U.K. has passed its own stringent Bribery Act; and the Organization for Economic Coöperation and Development has instituted a convention against bribery, and several dozen countries including Israel have signed it.
Following Nixon, the Democratic Party's state convention instituted a rule that only whites could vote in its primary elections; the Court unanimously upheld this rule as constitutional in Grovey v. Townsend (1935), distinguishing the discrimination by a private organization from that of the state in the previous primary cases.
Party conventions were instituted as a means of checking the abuses of the caucus system but also became subject to abuses, which led first to their regulation and ultimately to their elimination for most offices except president and vice president.
Antarctic Treaty instituted as humankind's primary use— Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources (CRAMRA) identified environmental protection as a common goal of all resource activities around Antarctica.
Convention organizers in the United States and Singapore recently instituted a code of conduct for attendees in the hopes that it will curb instances of sexual harassment.
At the 1896 Democratic National Convention (Presidential primaries were not yet instituted), insurrectionists, disaffected with the continued ideology of their party, flocked to 36-year-old firebrand William Jennings Bryan.
Convention organizers in the US and Singapore recently instituted a code of conduct for attendees in the hopes that it will curb instances of sexual harassment.
Back when Virginia instituted its ban in 1901, delegates to the state constitutional convention where it was adopted as part of a larger voter suppression strategy stated their motives plainly.
France has instituted an annual report to parliament on the implementation of the Convention; Romania has established a National Committee for the Protection of the Child and has opened child protection units within selected ministries.
