Sentence examples for work on convention from inspiring English sources

WORK ON CONVENTION SPEECH Four years ago, there was little suspense about Mr. Obama's address.

More recently, Lepore and Stone (2010) have drawn upon David Lewis's work on convention, signaling, and conversational scorekeeping to offer a Davidson-inspired account of how speakers and audiences collaborate in bringing off the special verbal accomplishment that is a metaphor.

"Most Americans aren't hearing his stump speech except in little bits and pieces," said Jeff Shesol, a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton who worked on convention speeches in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

In addition to the millions in corporate donations to the host committees, each party will get $16.3 million in federal dollars to pay for convention expenses, generally the salaries and travel expenses of party officials who work on the convention.

Work on the convention has been going on for more than a year.

On Sunday night, Hillary Rodham Clinton broke away from a gathering of close friends to work on her convention speech into the night.

Mr. Breeden said that during his months of work on the convention, he had run up against some obstacles that were surprising and others that he had expected.

An official in the McCain camp said the campaign appreciated Mr. Goodyear's timely resignation and his work on the convention.

The gay strain in Wilde's work is part of a larger war on convention.

Although Garcetti worked closely with Live Nation on the festival, "the bottom line is our office works closely with both companies," Robb said, citing its work with AEG on convention center and NFL stadium plans.

On the convention floor today, Ed Gillespie, a Bush adviser who had been working on the convention for six weeks, was preoccupied with the endless logistics.