Sentence examples for matter of convention from inspiring English sources

This cutoff point, he thinks, can only be specified as a matter of convention, but this conventional element does not threaten the objectivity of diagnoses.

True, "star" is a concept with partly conventional boundaries; however, that the concept "star" has conventional elements does not make it a matter of convention that "star" applies to something (and thus merely a matter of making a world version).

That is a matter of convention.

The point is, the one kilogram is a matter of convention.

So preposition choice is a matter of convention – but not all the conventions have been settled.

"It's a matter of convention," he said, adding, "you make the simplest choice".

Still, many — even many who think an appeal to convention is essential to making sense of morality — think that the proper account of morality cannot be a matter of conventions "all the way down".[4] But that does not mean that they think that the standards that serve to justify the demands of (some) conventions are mysterious.

This comes extremely close to making identity over time a matter of convention divine convention, to be sure, but convention all the same.

This "point of honour" was a matter largely of convention, "honour" being equivalent, in a very limited and brittle sense, to social reputation; men were expected to be brave and proud and not to put up with an insult, while "honour" for women basically meant maintaining their chastity (if unmarried) or their fidelity (if married).

If law is a matter of social convention, how can there be conventions that hardly anybody knows about?

This was not simply a matter of squeamishness, convention or politics: as a signatory to the above-mentioned Bern Convention, any government action involving killing wildlife must be done as 'humanely' as possible, shaping the decisionmaking process (Bourne et al. 1998).