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We create spaces outside of convention, including the conventions of time.
I never wanted a diamond ring, because conflict and convention are not my thing, so my ring is the deepest purple, like the color of my crown chakra, and set in place with my birthstones.
To the left is the convention center neighborhood, full of pedestrians.
It wasn't doing very well because this was the bridge, and no one was walking from the convention center into that neighborhood.
And I think it's important that we ask ourselves, constantly, how much of that conventional wisdom is all convention and no wisdom?
Common convention is to transfer the embryo three days after fertilization, when the embryo has eight cells, or on day five, when the embryo is called a blastocyst, and has hundreds of cells.
Right after, I got an invitation to go to a science fiction convention, and with all great earnestness walked in.
Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center, we can find the nearby aquarium, we can look at where we're sitting, and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean, and California's four national marine sanctuaries, and the new network of state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets We can flit over to Hawaii and see the real Hawaiian Islands: not just the little bit that pokes through the surface, but also what's below.
Shortly after that I got invited to speak at the convention of the people who make balloon animals.
It does make you wonder if there were, for instance, a massive, extremely popular Star Trek convention one weekend, who would be minding the store?
But I promise you, with enough brain power and enough passion and enough commitment, you will arrive at conclusions that will transcend convention, and will simply be something that you could not have initially or individually conceived of.
In 1997, a convention, under the auspices of the OECD, which obliged everybody to change their laws and criminalize foreign bribery.
And in the final session, at the Aspen Institute, we had them all sign an open letter to the Kohl government, at the time, requesting that they participate in the OECD convention.
In some other countries, the OECD convention is not yet properly enforced.
In Germany, we are pushing the ratification of the UN convention, which is a subsequent convention.
Indeed, I was the youngest member of any delegation in the 1980 convention that elected Ronald Reagan to be the Republican nominee for president.
You're a conservative member of Congress, and you fear the next county party convention.
Tell the folks at the county party convention, "You bet free enterprise can solve climate change."
I bought this movie sight unseen at a sci-fi convention and I got what I deserved for doing something so silly.
The protests during the 2004 Republican convention in New York were not that compelling to make a documentary about it.
Whereas it is good to see a British director attempting to break out of the confines of convention, AKA's only claim for innovative fame rests on the novelty of the triple screen.
It fails to adhere to any sort of movie making convention which makes it strangely interesting to watch- just lots of people getting killed around a very loose plot surrounding hired killers - no "machines" as such and those weird face/mountain things on the front cover and the trailer do not appear!
Of course, I'm sure that making them watch this god-awful dreck violates the Geneva Convention in several ways.
In 'Frenzy' the great master seems to be bowing to convention, trying to go with the times and give audiences what he thinks they want- in the form of unappealing nudity, nudge-nudge winks, and general nastiness.
I went into the screening at the convention in Indiana with very low expectations, having already viewed 2 other film with "gamer" in the title (both of which were so bad that by the end of the second one I had plucked out one of my own eyes with my drinking straw and a twisted paper clip I found between the seat cushions).
Hey, its great not to have to wait for the next Star-Trek convention to see hick-trek!
The special effects needed to be worked on a bit, but I saw it at a convention last year and thats one of the things they said they were going to redo and make better, so it's probably wicked now!
I say this because he avoided convention and cliché.
In less than 90 minutes, it manages to be not only a time-capsule of an era, but also a full-length experimental feature that defies time,space and convention in a way that only underground films of the sixties could.HEAD is a reflection of those films.
While traveling to New York City for an annual police convention, Chan (Sidney Toler) meets former Scotland Yard investigator Hugh Drake (Frederick Worlock) on the same flight.
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