Sentence examples for longstanding convention from inspiring English sources

The No 10 spokeswoman said: "The issue for today is that the House of Lords respects a longstanding convention that it accepts the clear view of the Commons on a financial matter.

"This is not about seeking the personal views of the prince but rather it is a longstanding convention in relation to the Duchy of Cornwall, which would have applied equally to his predecessors".

It was a "longstanding convention" that legal advice to ministers was not published but arguments about the legality of the war in Iraq had a "unique status", O'Donnell says.

The letters, known as "black spider memos" among the ministers who received them because of the prince's handwriting, have prompted widespread criticism from politicians and constitutional experts, who have accused Prince Charles, 63, of breaching the longstanding convention that members of the royal family should not intervene on matters of government policy.

By longstanding convention, cingulate cortex is divided into anterior (ACC), posterior, and retrosplenial regions.

Theatergoers generally expect actors to abide by certain longstanding conventions, and if actors fail to oblige, it usually isn't intentional.

The links are advertised alongside teenage profiles, which makes for some eerie echoes between the self-styled photos of teenage members -- suggestively posed and airbrushed -- and the longstanding conventions of adult erotica.

Corbyn clarified his thinking after he was challenged at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party on Monday night by the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who asked him whether he supported the longstanding conventions governing the use of armed force.

Like all art museums around the country that are accredited members of the Association of Art Museum Directors, the museum uses money from the sale of pieces in its collection only to buy new art, a longstanding museum convention.

Earlier Matt Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, said the chancellor was "very much in listening mode", but warned the Lords against breaking the longstanding constitutional convention by rejecting such a large financial measure.

Boris Johnson accused Saudi Arabia of abusing Islam and acting as a puppeteer in proxy wars throughout the Middle East, in remarks that flout a longstanding Foreign Office convention not to criticise the UK's allies in public.