Sentences with phrase «asked by convention»

We find that not only do visitors look for this area, but more frequently, we are asked by convention / event organizers about the availability of this accommodation when they are considering our venue for their national conventions and meetings.

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However, by 1995, the convention issued its Resolution on Reconciliation, publicly denouncing its past racism, and asking forgiveness for its role in supporting slavery and segregation — an unprecedented action by a Southern denomination.

At the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit in October, put on by the Women's March organizers, Herndon - De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, asked «if there was room in their campaign for women who might regret their abortions, say if it was done out of coercion, or if that counted as reinforcing stigma.»

Similarly, Burger King's been great about challenging digital conventions — recently they activated everybody's Google Home devices by directly addressing them from a brief ad and asking the computer to read the Whopper Wikipedia entry.

Here are answers to some of the questions active people commonly ask about protein in a sports diet as presented by prominent protein researchers at the American College of Sports Medicine's Annual Convention in May 2012.

When Scott Bearby, General Counsel for the NCAA, was asked by yours truly at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week about who holds the athletic trainers and medical staff accountible about return - to - play decisions for student athletes, it opened the door to an interesting observation about the culture of concussions.

The leader of the largest party in the House of Commons is by convention asked by the monarch to be Prime Minister and to form a government.

So if we ask what is meant by a people's constitutional convention, the answer depends on how we answer these questions.

Op - Ed by Tom DePrisco NYS law mandates voters be asked every twenty years, or at other times, if they would like a Constitutional Convention.

Each Governor was reportedly asked by the ruling APC party to bring N250 million ahead of the party's National Convention.

Oct. / Nov. 2013 - Mahoney asks the nonprofit Syracuse Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is funded by the county, to give $ 50,000 to SU to help pay for a feasibility study.

The event, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute and the state Bar Association, looked to November 2017, when voters will be asked whether to hold what would be the state's 10th Constitutional Convention since 1777.

During the convention, which was organized by the SPD's Bundestag faction, attendees were given insight into current research activities, and they were also asked to give their input about the potential for sustainability research in Germany.

if you ask any seasoned convention attendee they'll tell you that Saturdays are by far the most busy day.

It would be unfair to ask any other film to mix insight with carnage but again the Diablo Cody pedigree is built upon such knowing play with conventions; Jennifer's Body has the necessary structure to outdo not only Scream with the genre self - awareness but also Heathers with a look at the «scorched earth» dynamics of high school existence heightened by a string of murders.

Benjamin Franklin's response, when asked what kind of government had been decided upon by the delegates to the Constitutional convention, is a pointed reminder that self - rule must never be taken for granted — and of the historic longshot American democracy represents.

«Every time we speak at one of the big comic conventions, the first question asked by fans is when we'll start accepting submissions.

Charleston Animal Society, Pet Helpers and the South Carolina Animal Care and Control Association are asking the Mayor of Charleston to withdraw from the convention or strongly disassociate the City from views expressed by other speakers, specifically Mindy Patterson.

As an essential component to control climate change, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has asked participating governments to enact changes that will allow the agreed upon works from last year's summit in Cancun, Mexico, to be implemented by 2012.

Global, national, regional and local leaders are being asked by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to make bold and long - term decisions on ways to invest in more resilient infrastructure, revise land use, enhance coordination, update building codes, adjust natural resource management and other practices to improve the resilience of their communities to the impact of climate change.

Essentially, the national court asks whether Simmenthal II applies to the ECHR now that article 6 (3) TEU states that «Fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, shall constitute general principles of the Union's law».

On the other hand, in the rare instances where this provision would not apply and the ECtHR would be asked to give an advisory opinion nonetheless, such an opinion — if the ECtHR accepted to give it — would by definition be confined to «questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the protocols thereto».

On Sadie Hawkins Day (traditionally observed in early November) or at a Sadie Hawkins Dance, women have the opportunity to break social conventions by asking men out on a date or to a dance.