Sentences with phrase «for other conventions»

Not exact matches

After she got the part she started making appearances at the annual Comic - Con convention and other events, and searched for Star Wars - themed clothes to wear.

Stressing that diluted bitumen doesn't behave exactly the same as other convention heavy crude oils, Kuprewicz also said that an oil spill response «may have to be considerably different for dilbit.»

Marriott also provides other major services at cost: The first is sales and marketing, including selling blocks of rooms for conventions.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

WASHINGTON - Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention due to its unease over Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities, Politico reported.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

As well as the WTO case and other trade action Canada has taken to expand markets for existing GMOs, Canada is notorious internationally for trying to undermine the de facto moratorium on «terminator seeds» in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

A: In addition to other considerations under novelty and clarity, the two most common hurdles for bioinformatics - based inventions before the EPO are the exclusion from patentability, governed in the European Patent Convention under Article 52, and inventive step, governed under Article 56.

«It would have been tough for anyone other than Mark,» says Richard Land, the public policy chief for the Southern Baptist Convention, remembering how DeMoss performed in one hostile setting last January.

Ditto for all the other Christian sects like the Southern Baptist Convention and Seven Day Adventists where pedophilia and coverups have been a major issue.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

Other criticisms are perhaps the result of Christians» being so in thrall to the tropes and conventions of Western politics, and so convinced of their own social importance, that they hear any call to break with that culture as a call for unconditional surrender.

It is worth stepping away and not celebrating Halloween if for no other reason than to make the statement that we will follow Christian morality over worldly convention.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

It does happen that churches, in councils, sessions and other courts, are led beyond themselves, powered beyond prejudice, liberated beyond convention, overwhelmed by the capacity for new risks.

But this must not be to substitute his own and his readersâ $ ™ conventions for the original, but to broaden his own perspective so that it can make a place for the other.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

In other words, the Genocide Convention has given the campaigns for unilateral and absolute disarmament a basis in both public morality and human rights law.

Nine churches in the Houston area served as temporary shelters for the city until survivors could be moved safely to other venues, such as the downtown convention center where officials are coordinating relief efforts.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

Peyré therefore feels that «bringing an adopted child into a society in which he or she will have the same rights and the same place as other children» as the Hague Convention provides» requires that the child be received into pre-existing family structures, already recognized as such, and not serve as an instrument for obtaining recognition of new family structures.»

The other treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has been ratified by every country on earth except for the United States and Somalia (which does not imply that the treaty is good; to the contrary, it is at least as bad as CEDAW).

First, the doctrine of inerrancy allows for figures of speech, proper use of genre, and other literary conventions that were in use at the time the Bible was written.

«We have started to use our auditoriums much like a convention center or a hotel in that we set spaces aside for seminars and other events, which we accent with a continental breakfast or box lunches.»

The AAMP Convention offers a lot of opportunities for you to network with exhibitors and other attendees, including:

She represented UVU at a series of regional American Culinary Federation contests, then went up against other regional winners to become one of five competitors to cook for the national Student Chef of the Year title at the group's annual convention.

Maybe the user who claimed that bollocks met some fickle Real fans at CaughtOffside or some other good site for fickle fan convention.

It was a fortunate thing for the British in the other room that they were not using (or rather abusing) the set of signals known as the suit - preference convention, enslavement to, or rather a misunderstanding of, which has cost its users a great many points.

As a part of the McCormick Place convention center, McDome would more fairly distribute the cost of stadium development to a broader base other than the Chicago Park District property tax, which would have to continue to be the base support for any Soldier Field project.

As a result, these invitations often do not fit into the wording conventions used for the other styles of invitations.

In many other convention centers, event organizers end up converting one of their meeting rooms into lactation rooms for their staff and attendees.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

«This is not a time for parties to play games, or meekly respect the tired convention whereby they do not break cover during each other's conferences,» the statement said.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress

Notwithstanding any other provisions of these rules or any rule of the House of Representatives, to demonstrate the support required of this paragraph a certificate evidencing the affirmative written support of the required number of permanently seated delegates from each of the eight (8) or more states shall have been submitted to the secretary of the convention not later than one (1) hour prior to the placing of the names of candidates for nomination pursuant to this rule and the established order of business.»

In September 2013, the Convention considered the question of extending the vote in Presidential elections for citizens resident outside the jurisdiction; this was passed by a strong majority, with powerful contributions made by video - link from Irish citizens resident in a range of other countries.

In a different sphere, I was right to argue that English local government should be rescued from its status as the «humiliated Cinderella of English governance», but I should have argued much more forcefully for a constitutional convention to decide how the nations, regions and localities of the United Kingdom should relate to each other and to the centre.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

While we wait for news other than weather updates to come out of the GOP convention (Day One is canceled, if you haven't already heard, and there's a state of emergency in Florida, thanks to Isaac)...

Speaking in Port Harcourt after being screened for the post of national chairman with other candidates, ahead of Saturday «s National Convention of the party, Modu Sheriff said PDP is the only party that belongs to Nigerians and owned by Nigerians.

I as an English Nationalist and many other people like me who voted no would have been more amenable to voting yes if a Constitutional Convention for England had preceded it.

Pingback: Foreign convention involvement and other political law news for this morning Political Activity Law / Political Law / Election Law

Last week I posted about how during the Democratic National Convention's Lesbian and Gay Caucus Rep. Barney Frank (D - MA) laid it all out on the table and stated quite frankly in my opinion and may others the Log Cabin Republicans is bunch of «Uncle Tom's» for backing the GOP, a party that despises the LGBT community.

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention toConvention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention toconvention to consider.

The convention shall have the power to appoint such officers, employees and assistants as it may deem necessary, and fix their compensation and to provide for the printing of its documents, journal, proceedings and other expenses of said convention.

In 2015, the editor of this website applied for a fellowship at the New York Public Library to research this and other state constitutional convention items in the Library's collection.

If he can be guaranteed that no other candidate will receive enough backing at this month's Republican state convention to qualify for a primary, he said he will abandon his hopes of running on the Reform minor party line for governor.

«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational possible outcome of our potty electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»

The Independent Democratic Conference, a coalition of legislators in the New York State Assembly, announces that it will work with unions and other groups to oppose the call for a state constitutional convention.

Taking a brief break from the GOP convention for a bit of news from the other side of the aisle: Sen. Eric Schneiderman has become the first statewide candidate to sign on to the reform pledge sent to every candidate running this fall by former Mayor Ed Koch's PAC, New York Uprising.