Sentence examples for regular conventions from inspiring English sources

Collins spent his entire adult life as a pioneering tattoo artist, independent from regular conventions and completely unapologetic for being so, just like his namesake continues to be.  .

Regular conventions for the nascent movement of underground exchange programs and the subsequent formation of the North American Syringe Exchange Network acted as catalysts for the rapid spread of mostly extra legal efforts to start harm reduction services.

It's doubtful that a stadium would attract the kind of regular convention business the city desires.

His new acts conform to regular circus conventions.

A constitution and regular lay conventions to bring democratic governing traditions into the church.

By the 1830s, free black communities in the Northern states had become sufficiently large and organized to hold regular national conventions, where black leaders gathered to discuss alternative strategies of racial advancement.

Mr. Broughty said several chapter presidents were concerned that Mr. Hasenberg was raising dues but not providing basic services expected from a national fraternity: holding regular national conventions, conducting training on matters like running the chapter and recruiting, supplying pledge pins and issuing an annual newsletter about the fraternity.

Away from the populist-tinged events of the regular Republican convention is a far more exclusive set of gatherings tailored especially to the billionaires and other well-heeled donors who have become a defining presence in the 2012 elections.

"It is sweet agony," said Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent and a convention regular for a quarter century.

Issuing permits for people to protest and using special event zones as a regular part of convention business concern some who believe such controls border on selective suppression of free speech.

Though clearly enticed by what they believe will be a powerful television image of Mr. Obama speaking before tens of thousands of people, his aides said Monday that they hoped to open the convention to regular voters who typically did not attend party conventions.