Sentence examples for several conventions from inspiring English sources

You just got back from a book tour that included stops at several conventions.

San Francisco is expecting about 5,000 sociologists for several conventions this week.

In the months ahead, he is booked to speak at several conventions and events.

"While Waiting" breaks with several conventions, starting with the nontraditional casting of women as Vladimir and Estragon.

At several conventions important speeches were made by back-benchers who sat quietly through most of the proceedings, then gave their judgment.

The show departs from several conventions, but perhaps the most important departure is in the choice of director: the filmmaker Carlos Saura.

And Willam Safire's 1997 book "Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History" includes several convention speeches, from Willam Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" address in 1896 to George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention pledge: "Read my lips, no new taxes".

Boston police officers, along with the city's firefighters, are locked in a long-running contract dispute and plan to picket several convention events, beginning with the 32 welcoming parties for various state delegations given by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

VIDEO GAMES ARE too big for their own good, Rohrer told me as we walked through one of the several convention-hall floors — some 300,000 square feet of screaming bells and digital whistles: supernaturally enhanced combat, turbocharged vehicles, many-eyed monsters with seemingly phlegm-covered fangs and the expensive software that makes it all possible.

Several convention groups have boycotted Arizona because of its anti-immigration law, SB 1070, while the law has been a deterrent for others, the Arizona Republic reports.

The Bush campaign's decision to give a vanquished rival such a prominent role on the second night of the convention marked a striking departure from the last several Republican conventions.