I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.
I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.
We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.
Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
Convention is the ruler of all.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.