The first nontorsion artillery (i.e., artillery using mechanical means to winch back, by means of a ratchet, a bow of unusual solidity but of a basically conventional conception) is attested from the Sicily of that period.
Before going on to the monastery itself, I must give some account of Père Roland de Vaux, who does not in the least resemble any of the conventional conceptions of a typical French priest.
Recently, discoveries and notions related to the "seesaw" model for cell fate conversion have introduced a novel scenario for cell fate conversion causing us to re-evaluate the characteristics of pluripotency factors and lineage specifiers, which are two rivals in the conventional conception of the development of cellular identity.
The more conventional conception of the sport, though — certainly among those who do it — is that it represents adventure, freedom, and transcendence.
The need to frame challenges in ways that are intriguing and memorable and that catalyze an organization represents perhaps the most significant departure from the conventional conception of leadership.
His pieces were always site-specific; they were always temporary, with whatever was made or moved for them being destroyed or put back after the exhibitions; and they were not salable, in the conventional conception of the word.
As a result, "we pursued a policy unsettling to ourselves, for ends humiliating to the Salvadorans and at a cost disproportionate to any conventional conception of the national interest".
Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.
Examining the roles of criminal law and armed force in preventing and stopping widespread violence, her work considers the meaning of responsibility in mass atrocity crimes and seeks to unsettle conventional conceptions of choice and participation in this context.
Conventional conceptions of in-situ conservation would promote the integrity of the system and attempt to exclude foreign genetic material.
