Sentence examples for touch conventions from inspiring English sources

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To anyone versed in the "Don't touch" conventions of Western art, the sight of people walking on a masterpiece — in mud-crusted stock boots — was startling.

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But the intrepid crew in "The Matrix" carries no set of laughable but touching social conventions, for the simple reason that their society is nothing but an illusion, imposed on them by predatory aliens.

In an interview with the Guardian, François Crépeau, UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said: "We shouldn't touch the Geneva convention … The refugee convention is the embodiment of an age-old institution.

We must not touch the international conventions that lay down rules and principles relating to the fight against drugs.

Keeping in touch with the convention yesterday was, for the most part, a cable television and Internet activity.

The layout, decor, and food will only remotely be touched by Western conventions, but even the bathrooms may be in the local style (although not always; a flush toilet is one of the West's most successful exports).

Mr Weizman and his wife visited every soldier wounded in his presidential terms.That common touch made him defy convention to the end.

We have to almost deconstruct the process, give the users the feel of the convention, to touch what's going on".

If the recommendation is that the convention not touch expenditures, delegates will have to shift the property tax burden to new sources.

My personal purging process is not a subject Al wants me to touch on at a convention that is supposed to be all about him, but I know what's best for me.

"Social conventions regarding touching someone else's private parts apply to a robot's body parts as well.

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