Sentence examples for particular convention from inspiring English sources

The most important early contrast was between laws that were by nature, and thus generally applicable, and those that were conventional and operated only in those places where the particular convention had been established.

Mr. Lyons clearly doesn't hew to any particular convention.

You use a particular convention and get a bad result from it.

In particular, convention attendance, the essential source of revenue for all of the groups, has declined.

(This particular convention was in Vandalia, Ill., where Lincoln began his political career serving in the Illinois House of Representatives).

And List has a particular convention for representing a sequence of things as, essentially, a chain of pairs, and that's called a List.

Ideally, a satisfying answer to these questions would include both an analysis of what social conventions are and a description of the particular conventions underlying some range of "conventional" facts.

But in order to do that you would have to be trained in the tax code and be familiar with its particular conventions and intricacies, and know what questions to ask.

Thus, while particular conventions may be arbitrary, the interactive structures that stabilize and maintain them are not.

Firstly, in invoking declaratives and, therefore, performatives, does not Searle thereby necessarily invoke institutional forms constitutive of language and, in particular, conventions?

But, inclusive legal positivists maintain, legal validity is sometimes a matter of the moral content of the norms, depending on the particular conventions that happen to prevail in any given community.