Sentence examples for upon convention from inspiring English sources

Ms Black said: "The legislation being considered by the EU will build upon Convention rights to create practical, binding measures.

What we fail to recognise, Quinn argues through his own sculptural practice, is that this kind of sculpture piles convention upon convention and that, in short, it is an exclusion zone.

Something else Woolf wrote in her essay seems to apply to Walser: "If a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work on his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style".

Selection of a material based upon convention is highly overrated and leads to potential failure.

Some philosophers take this argument to show that language does not rest upon convention.

Hobbes explains government as the result of phenomena, such as promising or contracting, that themselves rest upon convention and hence could not arise in a pure state of nature.

Yet the sick role is seen as "increasingly contingent, constituted by diagnostic procedures and agreed-upon conventions negotiated and renegotiated outside the patient's body" [ 21].

Furthermore, countries first need to establish their own legally binding social policy to enshrine these agreed-upon conventions into legislative commitments, and second, countries are only required to self-report on their implementation to the ILO.

Unlike magazine or book editors, site designers are hampered by a lack of commonly agreed upon conventions on the Web.

In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein claims that a genuine proposition, which rests upon conventions, is used by us to assert that a state of affairs (i.e., an elementary or atomic fact; 'Sachverhalt') or fact (i.e., multiple states of affairs; 'Tatsache') obtain(s) in the one and only real world.

Connections rely on the application of agreed upon conventions, or standards for describing clinical and administrative information (i.e., controlled vocabularies, standard identifiers) and for transmitting that information electronically (i.e., message exchange standards, e.g., HL-7 and X.12).