Sentence examples for tricky convention from inspiring English sources

The jump to two spades was "suction," a tricky convention now popular in tournament play.

This is a tricky year for estimating convention bounces, with the two parties having held their conventions just one week apart, but if the model is reading the data wrongly, it will correct itself soon enough.

Measuring the bounce the incumbent party gets out of its convention is trickier than doing so for the challenger, which holds its convention first.

Taking the temperature of voters around the party conventions is tricky: it is a period when a lot of undecided voters start to tune in for the first time, but it is also associated with volatile polling.

Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with the prospect of putting a candidate with a most unusual background — the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia — and his family in the White House.

Putting too much stock in presidential polls before the party conventions can be tricky.

David: A brokered Tea Party-dominated convention might have been tricky for us.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn's resignation comes at a tricky time for the United States, which by convention has taken the No. 2 job at the fund while occupying the most senior position at the World Bank.

But the convention of the aside is trickier, involving as it does the raw material of theatre itself.

For as the convention unfolds his task is looking increasingly tricky.

A constitutional convention may be needed to push through the trickiest reforms.Many frustrated businessmen some unpaid for years think the situation is hopeless.