Sentences with phrase «conventions of»

But an understanding of the Constitution and the laws of the country and the rules of procedure and conventions of Parliament is considered a major asset for the holder of the office of the Speaker.

In offering this message and seeking to cultivate a more mainstream political identity, the party have, however, been frustrated by the conventions of British politics.

Does it have any foundations beyond the basically arbitrary conventions of given societies?

The revelation of US agencies wire - tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phones has strained relations between the two countries primarily because such actions flout the conventions of a higher order social contract, in the international arena.

It's stuck with a yawner of a title («The McCain / Palin Tradition»), and the lyrics are laughable as ideology (read»em below the break), but I submit to you that this song is a masterful adaptation of fleeting campaign talking points into the strict conventions of country music.

The controversial conventions of the Peoples Democratic Party holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Abuja have produced a new caretaker committee headed by former Kaduna Governor Senator Ahmed Makarfi with Senator Ben Obi as his Interim Secretary.

The publication conventions of print newspapers and radio and television bulletins have been upended by the ceaseless 24 - hour news cycle.

On top of this, we are overturning many of the rules and conventions of our parliamentary democracy, which should encourage the search for consensus and compromise, and shun majoritarianism.

If it conforms to just about all the conventions of its young but growing genre, at least it does so with restraint, humor and compassion.

Your school is known nationwide as the place that holds in contempt the most elementary conventions of sportsmanship.

So they're in different places in their lives, but they all defy the conventions of what they're supposed to be doing.

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) today introduced its latest brand offering, Maison de Grand Esprit, a unique French wine portfolio that combines old world winemaking techniques with a new world sourcing model, challenging conventions of the French wine category.

Accepting the conventions of the «Berlin» type, it grounds the unity of education in its overarching goal of educating professional church leadership for the churches.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

But the solution, Sasse cautions, is not to bypass — much less to change permanently — the conventions of the House or Senate in order to bring about the political results currently favored by the majority.

Modifying the conventions of conversion narratives, the book acknowledges Bush's youthful indiscretions but downplays the nature and severity of his sins.

Whitehead's principal aim in developing a metaphysics of an organismic universe was to transcend the self - imposed conceptual boundaries and rigid conventions of the natural sciences.

After all, Jesus torpedoed the conventions of his religious contemporaries by the boatload, once illustrating the point by saying that you can't pour new wine into old wineskins.

Bellah, he wrote, challenged the mainstream insistence on the fact «value distinction and its elimination of religion from public life and discourse, which were the usual conventions of his discipline.

To make such a claim he conveniently ignores the iconographical conventions of the day, which directed that the male disciple described in John's Gospel as the one whom «Jesus loved» be depicted in just such a manner.

Still, in the final analysis, our history makes us what we are now, and the conventions of our present social, political, economic and moral world constitute a realm of external determination on our lives.

So in general we believe that even the kindest and most gentle of the chivalric customs and conventions of the past were dangerous compared to our new and unashamed moral focus on safety and consent.

In spite of this, we catch a glimpse of women and men, responding to what they sensed was a new movement inaugurated by a man from Galilee, a man who tried to break so many of the social conventions of his time, a response informed by the possibility of change and transformation, even though what he «actually taught often became a matter of bitter dispute....»

However, you wouldn't take everything written in a woodenly literal way that ignores the conventions of the craft.

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

Rather, their creative interpretations of the text are influenced by the hermeneutical conventions of Second Temple Judaism, which allow for quite a bit of «play» with the narrative texts.

Both seek, not always successfully, to reconcile the conventions of the classical detective story with the novel of social realism.»

In an interview several years ago she discussed the conventions of the detective story in which «the good triumph and the bad are punished... This is one reason why, for some people, the detective story — however good it is — will always be classified as a subliterary form: because of the contrivances, and because, in the past, psychological truth was too often sacrificed to the demands of plot» (Times Literary Supplement.

The truth is that Tolstoy, as an epic writer, is majestically brilliant at his craft, while Dostoevsky, as a dramatic writer, has his many moments of genius (Mitya and Grushenka's night together just before Mitya's arrest, for instance), but all too often falls into the worst conventions of nineteenth century melodramatic theatre.

Society officers were given such secular titles as general secretary or president, and annual conventions of the denominations were mass meetings, not representative deliberative gatherings.

While Marvel and comic book culture have crossed over to the mainstream, Star Trek still conjures up conventions of superfan 40 - something men who seriously lag in the social skills department.

We know we are judged not by the soft and easy standards we impose upon ourselves or the conventions of society impose on us, but by God's standards.

Just wanted to bring this up because after many years of really pushing the conventions of the church, some of it seems to be okay again.

The images and conventions of the art forms (e.g. the editing technique involving long shots, close - ups, panning and montage in cinema, TV and radio) have one meaning in some cultures and a different or no meaning in others.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

The poetry of the Psalms, like any great poetry, is nicely adjusted to the formal conventions of its own medium, and when these are ignored in the interests of dynamic equivalence, a certain amount of fine focus is lost.

In the Song there are some indications that beyond the conventions of culture there are other obstacles that these young lovers must overcome.

In the Song, the woman describes the depths of her affections and frustrations and the ways she deals with them without regard to the conventions of her culture.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

According to Enns, the only way we can begin to understand why New Testament writers handled scripture this way is to understand the hermeneutical conventions of their time, which are rooted in the literary conventions of the Second Temple period, and to appreciate the degree to which the apostolic writers positioned their reading of Scripture in light of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

And the incentives will not emanate simply from the conventions of the law schools.

Still, by running directly and explicitly counter to the conventions of the Niebuhrian generation, it opened the way to a quite different theological scene.

In an interview several years ago she discussed the conventions of...

Well - mannered speaking conforms to accepted conventions of linguistic usage.

Eberstadt points out that the conventions of modern libertinism lead to a whole host of social and personal disorders, and she has plenty of evidence to back her claim up, but she provides no account of what would truly satisfy.

And she does it all with a moral intent beyond the value - free conventions of most contemporary social science.

It is connected to the sexual revolution, and it is connected to a human desire in terms of a freedom that knows no bounds other than that which is assigned by the conventions of the day.

In the context of the conventions of Western perspective Watanabe's depiction of the table and its contents is symbolic of things as he knows them rather than representative of things as he sees them.

The poetry of Psalms, like any great poetry, is nicely adjusted to the formal conventions of its own medium, and when these are ignored in the interests of dynamic equivalence, a certain amount of fine focus is lost.

I have no problem with people using a pro forma or template, or even an editor (professional letter writer) to help someone structure their ideas to meet the conventions of the day.