Sentence examples for treating the convention from inspiring English sources
Former lord chief justice Lord Judge and three other senior British judges have recently backed this stance in high-profile lectures, arguing that by treating the convention as a "living instrument" the ECHR is "undermining democracy".
The carmakers have a tradition of treating the conventions as marketing opportunities.
Because campaign finance laws treat the conventions, where candidates are nominated, as an election, Mr. Kerry has 20 days after his nomination to decide whether to repay all or part of the loan from his campaign contributions.
Jonathan Lasker, a younger artist whose paintings in some ways resemble Mr. Goldberg's, treats the conventions of gestural abstraction as dead clichés subject to a semiotician's ironic parsing.
May treats the conventions with all due respect; but this being the 21st century, he also contrives to have Macleod hop into bed with the lady in the story, the daughter-in-law of a professor of tropical medicine who was murdered 20 years earlier in his island home off the coast of Brittany.
It was also quickly apparent that all forms of journalism have more or less abandoned the convention of treating the dead gently in the immediate aftermath of the announcement.
We adopt the convention of treating the entries of S i as fixed constants but these quantities are estimated in practice.
The Bush administration saw this mismatch as an occasion to treat the Geneva conventions as "quaint" (in the words of Alberto Gonzales, the former White House counsel).
This convenient ambiguity has enabled it to cherry-pick the Geneva convention and justify treating the occupied Palestinians differently from Israeli citizens while simultaneously annexing, expropriating and settling chunks of their territory.
Moreover, officials insisted, they were treating the prisoners in Cuba humanely, "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions.
Conventions matter more than debates: The news media treat the national political conventions as irrelevant dinosaurs; the presidential debates are depicted as the Super Bowl or World Cup of politics.
