Sentence examples for longstanding conventions from inspiring English sources

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.

All of which is to say that if Mr. Idol is right and the deal works — if the projections he has made prove true and Versace does reach $2 billion in sales over the next few years, Choo $1 billion and Kors $5 billion — it could rebalance not just the group's portfolio but smash some longstanding conventions within the industry itself.

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.

Her plan to hold a third vote on the deal this week were blocked by the Speaker, John Bercow, who said it would break longstanding conventions preventing MPs from being repeatedly asked the same question.

But other Tories called for the Lords to face "consequences", claiming the unelected chamber had over-reached itself and flouted longstanding conventions giving the elected Commons the exclusive power to determine matters of taxation and government expenditure.

Quoting from the guide to parliamentary procedure, Erskine May, Bercow said by convention, the question "may not be brought forward again during the same session" and that it was a "strong and longstanding convention" dating back to 1604.

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.