Sentences with phrase «old convention of»

Changes to mental health treatment reversed the centuries - old convention of institutionalizing the mentally ill, ultimately leading to the enormous hospital's demise.

Space and aeronautics industry was following (and still following) the old conventions of working.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

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The cozy, old - world rooms are the ideal place to snooze after a long day of meetings at the St. John's Convention Centre — an easy 15 - minute walk away.

«I schedule time outside the office, whether it's to meet with a new potential partner, a chat over lunch with an old client, or an out - of - town industry convention for a few days.

Romney wants voters to set off a brokered convention, where Republican insiders can hand - pick a nominee, bringing up visions of the cigar smoke - filled rooms of old.

However, during a presentation at the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas to promote the upcoming Xbox One console last week, a no - frills, old - school approach is exactly what Microsoft employed when confronted with a convention room full of passionate gamers.

The thing is, though, that I'm 52 years old, familiar with the field and the world of conventions, moderately well known to many professionals in the field, and relatively well - liked.

CNN: U.S. Protestant pastor reject evolution, split on Earth's age America's Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist Convention.

Most of the older moderate groups defeated in the long Baptist wars gave up on the Southern Baptist Convention some years ago and established their own groups outside» or, at best, on the margins of» the denomination.

The Conservative Political Action Committee, the largest and oldest gathering of conservatives, is run by the American Conservative Union and will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor in Maryland from March 6 to 8.

In the 1950s, J.D. Grey, a New Orleans pastor, said of Louie Newton, an older leader from Georgia, «Louie and his buddies have run this convention for too long, and I'm going to take it away from them»» which J.D. and his buddies did.

The internal struggle of the last two decades has resulted not in fragmentation, but realignment: Jerry Falwell, a bitter foe of the old, moderate «dominated SBC, was a voting delegate at last year's convention.

All of these items could show up in the White House, said Grant Bennett, an old Romney friend who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has known the Romney family since they met through church in 1978.

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.

Today the 36 - year - old was announced as the next president of one America's largest missions agencies: the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

When the 36 - year - old pastor and Radical book author became president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board (IMB) in 2014, the agency had about 5,000 missionaries.

Proving the old retail adage that location is everything, despite sky - high prices for hotels and restaurants, as well as the disgraceful city - allowed muck in the streets resulting from the homeless crisis, the stunning beauty of the San Francisco Bay and The City's splendid tourist attractions support a huge convention industry and vacuum up tourist money from around the world.

This shift from the old world of religious tradition and convention to the new world of technical control is a theme that has preoccupied the classical tradition of sociology.

America's Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist Convention.

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.

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.

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The success of the Urban Bourbon Trail has led the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau to expand the program to 20 establishments for the four year - old tourism experience.

If proud old Samaranch is to salvage his legacy, he should help reformers turn the IOC from a convention of untouchable courtesans into a democratic body answerable to the athletes, coaches and administrators who are the true Olympic movement.

Both advocate the 16 - year - old vote, a constitutional convention, House of Lords reform, and an in / out referendum on EU membership when a proposed treaty change would transfer (substantial) powers to Europe.

But until they decide to, the courts will continue to apply the old English law of confidence, modified by the right to a private life from the European Convention on Human Rights, as is their duty.

As some of you old timers might recall, former Gov. George Pataki favored something similar — the Pataki Pass — for entrance to his events at both state and national conventions.

In 1963, when the then Midwestern Region (now Edo and Delta states) was carved from the old West, the progressive Action Group gave way to the centrist National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC).

For Democrats the «spring brunch» represents a coming - out party, an opportunity to greet old friends, to size up potential enemies, to plot strategy for the annual nominating conventions a few weeks hence, and of course to honor their own.

Santos, a 49 - year - old analyst with the United Health Group, won the support of 135 delegates on the first day of the convention.

Media reports also allege that UK officials are frustrating members of the Council of Europe with a last - minute intervention into the two - year - old negotiations on the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.

@alephzero Under the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act, there's now a prescribed form for a motion of no confidence, which doesn't mention supply, so there's now the potential for an odd grey area where the government doesn't have any finances, but the old convention that this means they're booted out doesn't apply (probably).

Gov. Mario Cuomo was 52 years old when he delivered his stirring «Tale of Two Cities» address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco — a proudly liberal rejoinder to President Ronald Reagan's election - year vision of America as a «shining city on the hill.»

Monday night, Newton won endorsement for his old Senate seat at a Democratic convention in Bridgeport, defeating two current Democratic legislators from that city: the incumbent senator, Edwin Gomes, and state Rep. Andres Ayala Jr., both of whom received enough delegate support to force an Aug. 14 primary.

Cuomo's late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, was a big supporter of the idea of constitutional conventions and in 1997 rejected fears it would be controlled by the old boys network.

And Bacchiochi confused everybody by claiming before the convention that Walker was making a stealthy stink about her Nigerian husband and four black stepsons (the oldest of whom — full disclosure — is me).

While the announcement cements the 30 - year - old convention center as the main venue for trade shows in New York City, it also kills hopes of a convention center near either of Queens» airports.

The opponents of the constitutional convention are a modern example of the old saying that «politics makes strange bedfellows».

Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»

Clan Apis, originally published as a five - part series, ingeniously reworks the plot conventions of the musty old action comic.

Brandon Yates, MS, of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, will present the poster «Dehydration impairs executive function task in middle - age and older adults following endurance exercise» on Sunday, April 22, in the Exhibit Hall of the San Diego Convention Center.

Last week, the Alexandria Convention & Visitors Association (ACVA) held it's annual meeting and launch of their new brand «Extraordinary Alexandria» at the Old Town Theater on King Street.

It's a roomful of an eclectic array of collectibles, including: maps from old atlases (many dating... sell comic books at conventions and eventually sold all of his...

On the surface, Wayne Wang's Because of Winn - Dixie looks like it's busting convention, too, since it defies easy description, but it's actually just the latest quasi-magic-realist, two - birds - with - one - stone shrine to non-traditional families and the power of myth (à la Big Fish or Holes), told from the novel point - of - view of a 10 - year - old girl.

What I do know is that Petrie, the king of the formula convention, would have been infinitely more interesting discussing why it is that people like him think that putting Clark Kent glasses on someone outside of old comic books renders him or her unrecognizable.

This was an incredibly rare opportunity, as this was not at a horror convention, thus the very intimate (15 people) audience was made up of mostly older fans of classic Golden Age Hollywood westerns, some of whom had never seen the 1981 sequel Halloween II, starring Dick Warlock as «The Shape», aka Michael Myers.

The 19 - year - old wore different outfits each day of the convention.

So she reaches out for her own taste of youth through Cheri (Rupert Friend), the callow, decadent, 19 - year - old son of a fellow courtesan she takes as a lover in brief affair that lasts six years, until social convention intervenes.

It's certainly the closest that we've come this decade to an old fashioned MGM musical, with Gregory Jacobs piecing together a series of lavish and playfully bawdy musical set - pieces along the road to a giant stripper convention in Miami.