Nor did the dinner look good for Kasich, who has to pick up more delegates here to play the role of convention spoiler for both Trump and Cruz.
Despite the retro-show from the hapless Reformers, we are far removed from the day when Walter Cronkite and other broadcast grandees were beamed into millions of living rooms in the role of convention hosts.
Quine's discussion of the role of convention in science seems right; but how about the role of meaning in ordinary natural language?
The varying ratings for all the outlets demonstrated at the least that the role of conventions in the national political discourse is continuing to change rapidly.
Although presidential and vice presidential candidates continue to be nominated by the whole convention, the growth of presidential primaries, especially after 1968, increasingly limited the role of conventions to ratifying the candidate already selected by the voters.
By appealing to the role of conventions, it is thought, we can distinguish linguistic signs, the meaningful use of words, from mere natural 'signs'signs
During the 1990s, the organization moved from viewing the Convention primarily as a basis for global advocacy to exploring both its role, and the role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as normative frames of reference for the design and implementation of programmes of cooperation with national partners.
In line with the strategy that Team Romney has been pursuing all along, the role of the convention is to reassure people that their man is a competent, pragmatic problem-solver, who is eminently qualified to be President.
"Given the drama that we've had … I think now, more than ever, the role of the convention to assist in the unification of the party is going to be extremely important," the chairman of the Republican National Committee told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the Fourth of July weekend.
In the following year (COP17, Durban 2011), negotiators agreed that the work program on loss and damage continue and in particular assess the risk of loss and damage, develop approaches to address such, and consider the role of the Convention in addressing loss and damage.
The conventional wisdom is that it was a masterpiece, and since the entire role of party conventions these days is to influence the conventional wisdom, it was a masterpiece, and my instant assessment was wrong.
