This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
Convention is the ruler of all.
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.
Learning to say prayers in a foreign language. . . is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.
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.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions. . . and yet which still remains a context.
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.