Sentences with phrase «from accepted conventions»

In the «age of anxiety» surrounding the Second World War and the years of free jazz and Beat poetry, artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning broke from accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting.

Not exact matches

A convention center in Minnesota has opened to accept people forced from their homes by a smoky fire at a nearby Wisconsin oil refinery.

Throughout the campaign, Southerners had boasted that they would not accept a «black Republican» as President, and four days after the election, South Carolina called for a convention to consider withdrawing from the Union.

«The Cardinal made it clear to the RNC (and to the Democratic National Committee as well) that he was only there to offer a prayer, not to engage in any partisan politics,» the spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, said in an e-mail, «and that he would be willing to accept a similar invitation from the DNC if they were to invite him to pray at their Convention as well.»

As adults they talk to each other on the phone nearly every day, slip away from convention sessions to drink milk shakes together, accept their various positions in the empire and follow the Steelers.

Such protections are provided not by evanescent «conventions» (in the traditional British sense), but, rather, by the willingness of an independent judiciary to enforce the prerogatives of the sub-national governments when, as is inevitable, the central government is tempted to overreach, perhaps because it refuses fully to accept the degree to which the traditional unitary state governed from Westminister is no more.

You own something only insofar as it is a matter of accepted convention that given the way you came to hold it — given public recognition of the title you have to the property — you enjoy public protection against those who would take it from you.

With President Obama set to accept his party's renomination in three weeks, excuses are plentiful among Democratic members of Congress from New York State — or at least those who are gearing up for tough re-election battles in November — for why they can not attend the Democratic National Convention.

CHRAJ's report follows a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party, which demanded a probe into the conduct of the President, for accepting the gift worth GHc100, 000 from the contractor who was subsequently awarded some government contracts.

The convention marked a historic moment, as Clinton became the first woman to accept a presidential nomination from a major political party.

MELVILLE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted his party's nomination to run for re-election today at the State Democratic Party Convention, proclaiming that he had revived New York from a state of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agenda.

Although I sympathise with my right hon. and learned Friend, does he accept that there is an intellectual case for, in time, bringing powers back to Westminster in this area by repealing the Human Rights Act 1998 and withdrawing from the European convention of human rights?»

When Arizona Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for president, he vowed to cut America's reliance on foreign oil by opening up the nation's Atlantic and Pacific coasts to drilling — drawing cheers from GOP delegates on hand for his party's national convention.

«Everything about the collection stems from the idea of flipping brand conventions on their head... overturning commonly accepted rules and traditions of iconography and branding.»

Accepting nothing less than consistent excellence from teachers was the cornerstone of CNN chief education contributor Dr. Steve Perry's keynote address to the International Reading Association 57th Annual Convention in Chicago.

He was beguiled by the idea of alien races of hyper - rational beings who had taught themselves to disregard all emotion, Compulsively rational, he wished to turn life's decisions — whether to take the first elevator or wait for the next one, where to bank his money, what job to accept, whether to marry — into calculations of advantage and disadvantage, algorithms or mathematical rules divorced from emotion, convention, and tradition.

«It was quite a radical departure from what had gone before with Castlevania, and there was a little bit of nervousness that perhaps it wouldn't be accepted as a Castlevania game,» Cox said of the title's Games Convention reveal in 2008.

Fendrich goes on to say that «the conventions are established, just as in baseball, and to derive pleasure from abstraction requires accepting its basic rules rather than continuously deconstructing them.»

In placing us at a remove from our relationships to familiar, domestic objects and environments, the labor - intensive work of Robert Gober (born 1954) defies our understanding of accepted conventions and draws attention to the movement of meaning between materials and across personal histories.

Successes 1) Storage of carbon dioxide captured from land based industrial sources in geological formations under the sea bed is now accepted (Nov. 2006) by the London Convention and its Protocol.

In all these areas, though, from bridges to medicine, we accept the dominant scientific conventions.

Presumably, however, they can be persuaded to accept an apostille from a Convention state in the place of legalization.

It is a uniformly accepted convention that once a court declaration under s 152 (2) is made, the insurer is released from any direct liability to meet a third - party claim, whether contractually or statutorily imposed (ie under either s 151 of RTA 1988 or Reg 3 of the Rights Against Insurers Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/3061).

The court accepted the argument of the UK government that immunity of the Saudi state and its officials from legal action in UK courts, which had been upheld by the House of Lords, did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

Examples of such material are international conventions or rules, industrial standards of construction or safety, statistical information from Statistics Canada (Calder v. Canada (M.E.I.), [1980] 1 F.C. 842 (F.C.A.) at 852), and generally accepted accounting principles recommended in the Handbook of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (Re Denison Mines Ltd. and Ontario Securities Commission, (1981), 122 D.L.R. (3d) 98 (Ont.

While family reunion rights arise from the Refugee Convention, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not accept them to be within scope.

Pharris said the high court may have decided to accept the appeal because it also agreed last week to take an elections case from New York state, where lower courts threw out nominating conventions for state judges.

``... can not accept that matters such as error of judgment on the part of a health professional or negligent co-ordination among health professionals in the treatment of a particular patient are sufficient of themselves to call a Contracting State to account from the standpoint of its positive obligations under Article 2 of the Convention to protect life.»