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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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annual
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Bognor has been the unlikely home to the annual clowns' convention since 1985.
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They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them.
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Less than a month later, all of us found ourselves in Orlando at a party during the annual Florida Bar convention .
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The place was Kyoto, where the International Press Institute was holding its annual convention .
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The annual booksellers convention is usually the place to learn what may be hot in the fall publishing season.
constitutional
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Without realizing it Macmillan trespassed on the modern constitutional convention .
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The group, which set up its own provisional government in December, hopes to hold a constitutional convention within two years.
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Whatever the formal constitutional conventions and party rules, the Prime Minister is normally in effective control.
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The Bill draws on the scheme proposed by the constitutional convention .
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In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions .
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The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear.
democratic
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Chris Dodd would say the same thing about the Democratic convention .
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Democratic Party nominees who have lost the White House will not be attending the Democratic convention .
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Mrs Clinton began hammering away at the issues during her appearance before Florida Democrats at the Democratic convention .
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McCord had told him he would be doing the same thing at the Democratic convention in Miami.
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One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
international
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Copyright is subject to two international conventions by which reciprocal protection is granted between members.
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All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention .
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This type of carriage of goods is regulated by international convention .
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention .
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It proposed an international convention on air transport under the auspices of an international authority.
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She is keen on the idea of an international convention on the atmosphere.
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Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods.
national
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Meanwhile newly established caretaker committees for each party were to start electing new leaderships and organizing national conventions .
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Louisiana Republicans kick off the 1996 quest for national convention delegates Tuesday in party caucuses around the state, with Sen.
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The selection of Bush continues a recent tradition of Texans in major roles at national political conventions .
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No major national political convention had ever been held in California before.
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He had a number of black bishop friends in Arkansas who passed the word around at their national conventions .
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The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
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Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.
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It was the last national convention that required more than a single ballot to nominate a presidential candidate.
political
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There will also be close, searched boats, blocked streets and all the other inconveniences of a major political convention .
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Not many men could say they brought a national political convention to their own neighborhood.
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And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention .
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No major national political convention had ever been held in California before.
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The campaign for book buyers' dollars is heating up again this summer, as the political conventions draw near.
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The selection of Bush continues a recent tradition of Texans in major roles at national political conventions .
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It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention .
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His plan to convene a summer political convention drawing together individuals and groups who organized the Million Man March.
republican
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Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.
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All a fellow has to do to write something funny on a Republican convention is just write what happened.
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Back in 1988 he had the nerve to raise interest rates on the eve of the Republican convention .
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The Republican convention was the most lavish exorcism in history.
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Steve Pierce at the Massachusetts Republican convention and needed to win the primary to salvage the nomination.
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Quite a few San Diegans' summers are being spoiled by the Republican convention .
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He was a strong presence at the Republican convention last summer, giving a stirring speech and darting from event to event.
social
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A Social Credit Party convention to choose a new leader was expected to be held in June.
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How do you carve out your identity when your parents were so rebellious and so against the social conventions ?
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What actions express an attitude is largely a matter of social convention .
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The purpose of the supper forgotten by the Corinthians, customary social convention prevailed and divisions resulted.
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He completely disregarded strictly enforced social conventions and religious restrictions in order to contact the outcasts of society.
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Cooley presents a report of conversation with a former and a description of social conventions .
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He further demonstrates that what is being tested is often the social conventions of a dominant class, rather than universal logic.
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It preaches the doctrine that individuals should be allowed to do anything they wish unfettered by social conventions .
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center
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Before forming the task force, Golding said the planned $ 213 million convention center expansion will not be included.
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The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center .
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The convention center is at 9800 International Drive, Orlando.
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Like Anderson, they wanted those within the convention center to hear them.
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The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.
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She said her organization will highlight the issue during a pair of rallies at an official protest site outside the convention center .
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He also made a deal with the Port District that permitted construction of the convention center .
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The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
delegate
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The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
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After the Super Tuesday contests, Dole expects to have about 700 convention delegates .
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On Saturday night, the 476 convention delegates will question Republican presidential hopefuls.
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In keeping with this cosmetic calm, Powell was well-received by convention delegates who applauded him generously at his most inspirational moments.
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The departure came just hours before Clinton triumphantly addressed the convention delegates , who unanimously nominated him for re-election Wednesday night.
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Schweiker changed not a single convention delegate vote.
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Q.. Are the county convention delegates obligated to support the presidential candidates preferred in their caucuses?
floor
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A guy walks around the convention floor with a boa constrictor around his neck.
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Television cameramen in San Diego were given color coded maps to help them spot minority faces on the convention floor .
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A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor .
hall
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And at mid-day Wednesday, she was rehearsing her walk through the convention hall .
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Enroute they passed a motorcade racing the other direction carrying Bush to join Reagan at convention hall and accept the nomination.
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He hopes to have busloads of protesters outside the convention hall Wednesday, when Clinton is to arrive.
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Activists on both sides demonstrated outside the convention hall , as expected.
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We will fight them inside the convention hall .
party
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A Social Credit Party convention to choose a new leader was expected to be held in June.
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For the past two decades, the national party conventions have been reduced to rubber-stamping the primaries' popular choices.
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The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
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A staunch opponent of the Accord, Chrétien was elected leader at a party convention on June 23.
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I attended my own first national party convention in 1960.
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A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July.
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But none of the Founding Fathers ever went to a party convention .
■ VERB
address
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It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention .
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The departure came just hours before Clinton triumphantly addressed the convention delegates, who unanimously nominated him for re-election Wednesday night.
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One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
adopt
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It is good practise to adopt a naming convention to prevent this from occurring.
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The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
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The notation can be greatly simplified by adopting the Einstein summation convention in which we sum over repeated indices.
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In side rooms Beuys adopts the conventions of the geological or natural history museum rather than the gallery.
attend
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Democratic Party nominees who have lost the White House will not be attending the Democratic convention .
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Five days before, he had told me he would not attend the convention because he had not been asked to speak.
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The experts also say many potential big-wig Tucson visitors have a hankering to play golf when they attend a convention .
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The Pentagon has asked the armed services panel to end its extra review of officers who attended the convention .
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And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention .
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However, Buchanan said he would attend the convention .
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I am in Norfolk to attend a real estate convention with my wife.
defy
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To defy convention , surrender her virginity, to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question.
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Amber, nevertheless, defied conventions , behaved outrageously, and pursued her man in a manner quite unusual for the 19405.
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He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world - and win! he thought.
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You could, of course, defy convention and make all your early turns to the right.
follow
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If user-defined characters are to be mixed with standard characters, they should follow this convention .
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In the remainder of the book, we follow convention and use the term national income.
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You should follow this convention in writing a press release.
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In the Penguin edition J. C. Maxwell does not follow the capitalization conventions of the text printed here.
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The patterning of sleep illustrated in Figure 2.8 is not only typical, but follows conventions which are universal.
hold
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Each of the three constituent elements within the new party was due to hold a convention to ratify the merger.
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The group, which set up its own provisional government in December, hopes to hold a constitutional convention within two years.
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The place was Kyoto, where the International Press Institute was holding its annual convention .
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The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
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Both are held under chivalric conventions of a formal confrontation between champions.
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For starters, the Democrats can hold their next convention in an undecorated airplane hangar.
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This weekend the Medieval Circle, a bunch of amateur historians, is holding a convention .
nominate
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For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
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Joe was, as always, resplendent when he traveled to the two political parties' summer nominating conventions .
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Then came the modern presidential nominating conventions .
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Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions .
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Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.
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The real decisions were still made at the national nominating conventions .
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Connally spent $ 12 million to win just one delegate to the nominating convention .
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Verney said the party hopes to have a nominating convention around Labor Day.
sign
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This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
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In return they will be allowed to raise prices by several percent more than competitors who have not signed the government convention .
speak
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Weld was scheduled to speak Wednesday night when convention organizers intend to stress economic issues.
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Can you remember anyone other than Clinton and Gore who spoke at the last convention ?
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Before speaking to the religious convention , he toured a curfew center for teens who violate the law.
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Mrs Clinton did not speak before the Democratic convention in 1992.
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Was a former president, Gerald Ford, speaking to the convention ?
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No Democrats are expected to show up to speak at the convention .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a convention for Star Trek fans
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an annual convention of the world bank
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For the next four years they defied convention by living as man and wife when they were not.
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He is a flamboyant millionaire who ignores social conventions.
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It is a matter of convention that male business people usually wear suits.
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Italian neorealism breaks with film conventions of the past.
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Lofgren told a convention of church activists that she wanted the money to be spend on local childrens' facilities.
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Sand was a freethinker who refused to follow the conventions of her day.
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Several hundred people are expected at the hotel next month for a huge sales convention .
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She shocked her neighbours by ignoring every convention of respectable society.
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the European convention on human rights
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The handshake is a social convention .
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The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August.
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the Republican Convention
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The Senator's speech at the Democratic Convention was well received.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But back to Bodytalk, whose convention happened to be at the Metropole, next to Labour's conference hotel.
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From the get-go, Ullman serves notice that her show will not be driven by convention .
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Indeed, within Renaissance convention , the two do not have the clear associations they do within Romantic conventions.
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The difference is that the poststructuralists put themselves forth as heterodox prophets and turn out to be priests of convention .
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The labelling of the terminal variables I i and I o in figure 10.2 conforms with this convention .
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The relative calm before this convention is almost eerie.
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The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.