How to use "convention" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "convention" in popular movie and book plots

• With the acts of allegorizing mythological-pastoral world of drama, Dubravka expands the meaning of the plot on the contemporary political world of Dubrovnik and also expands with the convention certain limits of the pastoral and pastoral genre itself.  - Dubravka (drama)
• The convention involving a novel opening with a discussion among unnamed men was common in the Tokugawa era.  - Setchūbai
• The Hong Kong station gathered intelligence that a man called Amos is behind all the scheme that has been developing the assassination of worldwide government delegates to foil the convention from taking effect between non-aligned countries in Cairo to uncover who has been toying with the international currency market which put hundreds of millions of dollars to drain that circulate around improving corporal means around the globe.  - James Bond 007: Light of My Death
• Homer goes to Moe's to watch a football game between the Springfield Atoms and the Boston Americans, but they end up bitterly arguing with a group of Boston fans who are in Springfield for a Dennis Lehane convention over their teams being alleged to be cheaters and losers.  - The Town (The Simpsons)
• Don and Pete fly out to California for an aerospace convention to drum up new business.  - The Jet Set (Mad Men)
• In a convention of flower growers, the destination brings together two young people who begin their love story when they meet.  - Despertar contigo
• says that he has hidden ten bombs in random toys at the convention and he will set them off if Winn does not go through with it.  - Childish Things (Supergirl)
• The plan is universally condemned by the states and the people, and the government of Arkansas passes a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to ban unfunded mandates.  - Twilight's Last Gleaming (novel)
• Conrad convinces Lisa that he's real at an app convention and Lisa decides to respect "his" feelings and releases him into the cloud.  - The Girl Code
• Frustrated by Jack's success and his lack thereof, Wray travels the science fiction convention circuit, makes appearances at comic book stores, and visits pop culture events.  - Con Man (web series)
• The time for the convention arrives.  - A Dainty Politician
• Feeling discriminated, Bonifacio then voids the convention as Supremo of the Katipunan.  - Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo
• He or she notes at the beginning that some versions of the story have Percival himself as Morien's father, but decides to follow convention that Percival died a virgin.  - Moriaen
• She admits that she is not comfortable with Dewey's methods and directs Bourne to a technology convention in Las Vegas.  - Jason Bourne (film)
• Mike urges her to come to the convention to regain her smile.  - Magic Mike XXL
• Wheaton tells Sheldon that he wants to give him a Wesley Crusher action figure, remembering Sheldon's story of the convention where he didn't turn up.  - The Russian Rocket Reaction
• Tina, Gene, Louise, and Linda visit an "Equestra Con" convention based on Tina's favorite animated show, The Equestranauts, based on a toyline of pony dolls.  - The Equestranauts
• When the attendees complain to the management and have them forced out, Bob and Linda retaliate by dumping the convention tubs of mayo (see Abby) and relish into the hot tub and are kicked out of the hotel.  - Uncle Teddy (Bob's Burgers)
• Solutions to harmful activity is postulated, and many point to the GaymerX convention for doing good work in creating a safe space in adding visibility, to influence a more open-minded gaming community, as well as more LGBTQ characters in mainstream games.  - Gaming in Color
• Paul receives an invitation to a security officers' convention in Las Vegas and begins to believe his luck is about to change.  - Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
• At another convention appearance, Davison, Baker and McCoy all eye Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann suspiciously.  - The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• While Claire seems very interested at the schedule of the convention and wants to participate in all the activities, Jay is more interested in meeting old friends, including Rita (Randee Heller), and do the pranks they used to do.  - ClosetCon '13
• When Arthur's free-thinking goes so far as to make him unfaithful to Dolly, Oswald and Dolly fall in love, but Dolly rejects Oswald's passionate appeal to defy convention and live with him in Central Africa.  - Joan and Peter
• They attend a travel agent convention where Irina poses as a travel agent from Montreal.  - Duty and Honor
• A common convention in the early decades of newspaper and magazine film reviews was to describe in the write-up the entire storyline including, in a substantial number of instances, the ending, thus unintentionally enabling subsequent generations of readers to reconstruct a lost film's contents.  - Seven Faces
• After myriad chases, double-crosses and switches, The Lone Wolf exonerates himself and mulls over missing an important philatelist's convention with his finally retrieved prize collection.  - The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
• As the episode opens, Kay Howard and Munch are on the station house rooftop, discussing recent events at a police convention in New York, where Bolander and Felton were among a group of 100 drunken police who ran amok at their hotel, and that this misconduct has earned them a 22-week suspension.  - Fire (Part 1)
• Homer leaves the house to attend a nuclear power convention in Boise, Idaho with Lenny and Carl.  - Homerland
• While spending time with Finn and Jake, Princess Bubblegum realizes that she needs to leave for a science convention in the Veggie Village.  - Death in Bloom
• In 2005, customer service expert Michael Stone travels to Cincinnati, Ohio to promote his latest book at a convention in a hotel.  - Anomalisa
• It was created in honor of the game's first appearance at a convention during Minecon in 2011.  - Dragon Fantasy
• It all began in 1962 with the signing of the ESO convention - thanks to the initiative of astronomers from five European countries, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.  - Europe to the Stars
• Penny is also given a package to be given to one of the convention heads, but the dim Penny ends up forgetting both the package and her phone.  - Dumb and Dumber To
• After spending the day attempting to blend in, the Minions end up in a department store for the night, where they discover a hidden commercial broadcast for villains advertising Villain-Con; a convention for villains and supervillains in Orlando.  - Minions (film)
• presidential election against an extremely popular incumbent, finds itself transformed out of nowhere at their convention by the arrival of the Cat in the Hat, with the slogan "i can lead it all by myself".  - A Political Fable
• Scooby and Shaggy take the gang to a comic book convention called the "Mega Mondo Pop.  - Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
• When she returns the two go to a convention in San Diego, where they continue their affair.  - Beautiful Bastard
• A gamer's convention turns deadly when virtual reality monsters escape their confines—and start tracking down the Net Force Explorers.  - Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers: Gameprey
• The film opens in WashingtonC, where a new government robot called RS-1 is scheduled to make its debut at a convention in Hong Kong.  - Gen-Y Cops
• He storms out of the convention when Daniel Tirona objects to his position.  - El Presidente (film)
• The film follows a group of blind people who are flying to a convention for the blind in Seattle.  - Seven in Darkness
• He later introduces the rice variety at a global convention as "the second green revolution", and the film ends with Gautham standing in his field of Golden rice.  - 1: Nenokkadine
• Or simply defy convention to become one happy family.  - Yours Fatefully
• Kim, on the other hand, carries herself with deliberate masculinity that defies convention and intimidates Pie upon first encounter, so much so that she immediately requests a roommate change which the college promptly denies.  - Yes or No (film)
• His first attempts turns out to be at the Texas’ sheriff convention and he has to escape together with another con man who is disguised as a monk.  - Sting of the West
• The situation is immediately complicated by persistent reporters, a romantic interest for the fake mother, and a convention of birdwatchers.  - Obliging Young Lady
• However the gubernatorial convention now distrusts him and Callahan fails to win a majority.  - A Fever in the Blood
• During a convention she was chosen to speak at about the miracle of childbirth, she begins to break down and bursts out into a speech about how much the process sucks.  - What to Expect When You're Expecting (film)
• He rallies Ryman's security detail to help contain the outbreak, then breaks into the convention centre to confront Ryman and Tate.  - Feed (Grant novel)
• And Kara is at a comic convention where she tires to help Robin (Joshua Dionisio) when his backpack gets snatched, and unknowingly sells him the #1 issue of Metal Man online.  - Tween Academy: Class of 2012
• After Demon states that he is going to present it at his next show at an upcoming magic convention (he claims that he learned the trick after being met by the ghost of the trick's creator, Harry Houdini), a betrayed Raymondo rejects Lisa's apology and orders her to leave his home.  - The Great Simpsina
• Homer takes his children, Bart and Lisa, to a video game convention for another fun Saturday.  - The Food Wife
• Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) is a middle-aged, single postmaster from Ohio who is attending a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel.  - Dear Heart
• Both campaigns are attempting to secure the endorsement of North Carolina Democratic Senator Franklin Thompson, who controls 356 convention delegates, enough to clinch the nomination for either candidate.  - The Ides of March (film)
• Homer and Marge attend a candy convention and hire Ashley Grant, a feminist graduate student, to babysit Bart, Maggie, and Lisa.  - Homer Badman
• As the FBI search the premises, they find evidence that points to a convention being held to promote world equality.  - The Bishop Revival
• At the work convention in the hotel, Francine becomes more and more impressed with the exciting life she has fabricated for Sarah and fully assumes her identity, demonstrating business prowess that lands her a CEO job in Portland, Oregon.  - Fart-Break Hotel
• This convention is similar to the bell ringing in Ives’s previous work Sure Thing (one of six plays in the collection All in the Timing).  - Ancient History (play)
• The film begins with Shinnosuke and his family attending a convention that dates back to the 20th century.  - Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
• Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing.  - Nightmare in Blood
• To consolidate peace, the convention on the Carretera Panamericana finally got signed on 23 December 1936 at the Inter-American Conference in Buenos Aires.  - Panamericana (film)
• She handles her household responsibilities, belying the convention that only males are the providers.  - Sanjog Se Bani Sangini
• Charlie Chan is attending a police convention in New York City; he is an intended murder victim here, but avoids death by chance.  - Charlie Chan's Chance
• Edgers interviews Avory and visits the annual Kinks fan club convention at the Boston Arms pub, where he talks to former drummer Bob Henrit.  - Do It Again (film)
• Leanne reveals she is actually in town for a psychics' convention and that she has left her career as an actress to become a medium.  - The Innkeepers (film)
• The reason that he wants them to meet is because he has found a convention where it is said that the Doomsday Group will be.  - Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
• Krista, however, goes to an arts and crafts convention in Santa Barbara, California instead, which angers Reid.  - Freaky Green Eyes
• The project is kept a secret until it is inadvertently revealed by Gin and Tropy during a bad guy convention inside Cortex's new space station.  - Doctor Neo Cortex
• At a convention in San Francisco, he mistakes Clarissa Standish, the mayor of Wenonah, Maine, for a "balloon dancer" he was expecting.  - Key to the City (film)
• The conclusion of the film depicts an autism convention that Temple and her mother attend.  - Temple Grandin (film)
• It follows the naming convention set forth by previous books in the series.  - People of the Lakes
• After Mimi has been gone for a while, she finally contacts her family while they are in London, England for a spiritual convention for mediums, psychics, etc.  - Distant Waves
• However, House drugs Wilson and makes his speech during the convention in another person's name (instead of Gregory House or James Wilson, House goes by the name Phillip Perlmutter for the whole medical conference).  - Known Unknowns
• Oblivious to what the word means, Butters attends a pimp convention where he seeks advice from more-experienced pimps, including one called Keyshawn.  - Butters' Bottom Bitch
• His troubles are just beginning as a young woman named Lizzy Hexam confronts him at a convention where she publicly asserts that Tom is not the real son of Wilson Taylor.  - The Unwritten
• " speech at a convention in Las Vegas, he realizes he no longer believes it, and walks off the stage.  - Up in the Air (2009 film)
• Hubbard will be attending a convention as a representative of American General Machine (AGM).  - A Key to the Suite
• A stranger using the alias "Fermat" invites several people to attend a convention of the country's best mathematicians.  - Fermat's Room
• Sophie-Anne plans to put Sookie's gift to good use, having her "listen in" on the thoughts of the humans working for the other vampires at the convention as well as for the hotel, as alliances are formed and allegiances tested in what can only be described as a political power struggle of potentially deadly implications.  - All Together Dead
• An opportunity arises when there is a toy convention in Boston.  - Christmas in Boston
• Sumika becomes involved with her classmate Azusa Aoi, a quiet girl and aspiring writer who plans to attend a dōjinshi convention fueled by her love of yuri author Orino Masaka, which is the pen name of Ushio's older brother Norio.  - Whispered Words
• He reflects back on a time in Bom Porto when he was given some money by the President for previously attending a Pan-African shipping convention whilst a Portuguese patrol vessel was sabotaged during the PAIM revolution against its colonial masters.  - Foreign Land (novel)
• When he invents an unbreakable glass windshield, his attempt to demonstrate it at a convention of automobile manufacturers is ruined when his car gets switched with another, and instead of bouncing off, the brick he throws at it smashes the windshield to pieces.  - So's Your Old Man
• It does not follow the traditional suspense or mystery novel's convention of tracking down the murderer.  - One for Sorrow (novel)
• After this event, the narrative switches to "present tense" news radio and television coverage of the event using a literary convention of "changing the dial / channel" from one news report to another, to cover the disaster: The Central Valley is inundated by the sea, the Embarcadero Freeway and Coit Tower have collapsed, along with the Oakland Bay Bridge.  - The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
• Jonas Carson (Alan Thicke) goes to a robotics convention with Chip and an inferior model to test whether or not the world is ready for the idea of living with androids as he does with Chip.  - Still Not Quite Human
• As the convention is set to get underway, Long officially announces his Independent candidacy, as succeeds in getting on the ballot in California.  - Dark Horse (Reed novel)
• The Two-Character Play has a concurrent double plot with the convention of a play within a play scenario.  - The Two-Character Play
• Carl goes to the convention center and hides in the backseat of Terrence's convertible so that he can beg to be released from the covenant.  - Yes Man (film)
• Martial calls for the first convention of the "General States of the Universe" on August 5, the night before the collision.  - End of the World (1931 film)
• Meanwhile James purchases a new bike, and is invited on a run with the Brigands to the Rebel Tea Party, a motorcycle convention in Cambridge.  - Brigands M.C.
• During a high-stakes poker game Lone Gunman John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood) is thrown out after being exposed as a fraud at a government convention in Las Vegas.  - Three of a Kind (The X-Files)
• Nick, meanwhile, investigates the happenings of a seedy motel over the course of a year ("Turn, Turn, Turn"), and Hodges and Wendy attend a sci-fi convention ("A Space Oddity").  - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 9)
• ” Contrary to Acis, Polyphemus represents failed self-cultivation, convention as opposed to nature, and the fruitless application of the virtues of neo-platonic thought, which stressed upward progression, refinement, beauty and universal harmony Unlike the usual burlesque representations of Polyphemus and Galatea (as seen in Theocritus), the words of the Góngora's Cyclops are incongruous with his outward appearance and his essential barbarism.  - La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
• At home she is comforted by her mom, who explains she is going away for an art convention in Delhi.  - Sssshhh...
• In a small hotel room on the 26th floor of the Holiday Inn in downtown Wichita, Kansas, three representatives of an industrial lubricants firm prepare to host a convention hospitality suite.  - Hospitality Suite
• Later, he takes Dylan to a cryptozoology convention called Bigfoot International, where dr Theodore Flagg is late for the meeting, and one member shows a snapshot of Bigfoot.  - Sasquatch (novel)
• He and Barney go to an adult video convention to confront "Bizarro Ted".  - I'm Not That Guy
• One of his passengers is dr Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a failed scientist who is in Las Vegas to speak at a UFO convention at the Planet Hollywood hotel.  - Race to Witch Mountain
• The Merchants Hotel is hosting a convention for morticians and a mediation meeting between aircraft manufacturers and their workers.  - Three Girls About Town
• President James MacPherson is scheduled to deliver a speech at the convention later that day.  - Dead Heat (Rosenberg novel)
• After ordering three drinks (but only gulping down one), Rosie goes into another room where a Shriners convention is taking place.  - Bye Bye Birdie (film)
• Grey says that the whole constitutional convention is a sham.  - Patriots and Tyrants
• Frustrated, Kearns attends a Ford dealers convention at which the latest model of the Mustang is unveiled, promoting the intermittent wiper as a selling point.  - Flash of Genius (film)
• Stylistically, the play shifts gradually from naturalistic convention into absurdism.  - Dogfall
• ", a horror movie convention Molly and Nelson had worked at.  - Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files)
• With all nearby hotels booked, Rachel, a member of the convention staff, manages to secure a room for them.  - The Guild (web series)
• In particular the temptations of convention and authority have already appeared; Laia recognizes that some of the status and honor she is accorded by her fellow anarchists is not in keeping with her principles or theirs.  - The Day Before the Revolution
• St Louis itself is a great disappointment for the author who remains unimpressed by efforts to revive the city through its convention center.  - Old Glory: An American Voyage
• They watch the tape, in which Stipe climbs out of the cab that has delivered him to the airport, at which point the killer emerges from a hiding spot behind a dumpster, shoots him once in the chest, and runs into the neighboring convention center.  - Mr. Monk in Outer Space
• The Ecotopian storyline ends with the Party making Lou’s solar cell technology available to the public, and a constitutional convention where the region decides to secede from theS.  - Ecotopia Emerging
• Laura's father travels to town for a journalists' convention and she attempts to contact him, only to be rebuked.  - I Am a Woman
• The movie tracks three plot lines: interviews at a role playing game convention (RPGCon), Elizabeth’s (Aimee Graham, the lead character) interaction with the justice system, and the game in which Elizabeth is a first-time player.  - Fellowship of the Dice
• In the United States, the change to the modern convention of flags shown on one side of the staff to indicate wind speed took effect on August 1, 1941.  - Station model
• Howeverlove has never bowed to convention or authority.  - Anarkali (1955 film)
• Alongside their team, including Sara Sidle, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Jim Brass, Willows and Grissom investigate the death of a poker player ("Revenge is Best Served Cold"), the evisceration of a cheerleader ("Let the Seller Beware"), a death at a little persons convention ("A Little Murder"), the overdose of a rock-star ("Abra-Cadaver"), a jewelry heist ("Fight Night"), a mob murder ("Blood Lust"), the discovery of a body covered in fire-ants ("Snuff"), and a drive-by shooting ("Random Acts of Violence").  - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 3)
• After a major terrorist attack on a Mars hotel which was to be the location of the PSI Corps Convention, the convention is moved to Babylon 5 and Talia Winters is given the role of coordinator of the event.  - Babylon 5: Voices
• The famous publisher of Zenith Comics, Barry Johns, is kidnapped from a San Diego comic-book convention by characters Human Dreadnought and Flame Fiend, observed by the Hardys.  - The Last Laugh (The Hardy Boys)
• As a pair they cruise the California convention circuit, hustling suckers and raking in the dough.  - The Dice Spelled Murder
• In the later part of the documentary, we follow how staff members of Christie's prepare the selected props, photograph them for an auction catalog, display selected pieces at a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas before they are finally being auctioned off in New York over a period of three days.  - Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
• Later, the three of them meet Mulder in the convention center and explain what happened to him.  - Unusual Suspects
• The novel takes place at Rubicon, a fictional science fiction convention being held in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, and at which the guests of honor are Appin Dungannon, a fantasy author noted for his books about hero Tratyn Runewind, and dr James Mega, an electrical engineering professor at Virginia Tech, who, under the pen name Jay Omega, has written one novel.  - Bimbos of the Death Sun
• At a publishing convention in Bologna, Petter is warned that his life may be in danger, so he takes the first flight out.  - The Ringmaster's Daughter
• Flouting both usual middle-class convention as well as that of her progressive social circle in New York, she becomes pregnant by the judge, having a son.  - Ann Vickers
• Unconstrained by convention and driven by her desire for a child, Jenny is able to rape Garp due to his priapism, thus impregnating herself.  - The World According to Garp (film)
• They notice that a meteor is headed for Earth, but become distracted by news of a convention for underpaid writers.  - Husbands and Knives
• The scheme goes without a hitch, and all the members of the convention proceed by sea to Mnaenn, which they seize from the witches.  - The Great Fetish
• Notable exceptions to this naming convention include attorney "Sol Sternbergowitz-Greenbaum" (Sal Iacono) and Santiago (Tom Kenny), a wardrobe assistant who mistakes Caramello for Luke Perry, provoking a homophobic outburst.  - Windy City Heat
• At the convention in San Francisco, extreme elements of the Left and Right combine to support Jason, and there are several violent incidents, including one in which Knox's daughter-in-law is brutally attacked.  - Capable of Honor
• Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room, but due to a convention there are no vacancies.  - Daffy Duck Slept Here
• The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.  - Convention City
• She is a well-endowed stripper who performs at an optometrists convention which occurs near the very end of the novel.  - The Broken Bubble
• Duke instead heads to a payphone and calls Gonzo, learning that he has a suite in his name at the Flamingo Las Vegas so he can cover a district attorney's convention on narcotics.  - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)
• Azamat becomes livid at Borat's deception, and the situation escalates into a fully nude brawl with homoerotic undertones, which spills out into the hallway, a crowded elevator, and ultimately into a packed convention ballroom.  - Borat
• Using magid fateline methods, Venables draws the candidates together in an unlikely place: a science fiction convention in the town of Wantchester.  - Deep Secret
• Von Bek resolves to travel to Prague, where a convention of alchemists has been called, and search for Libussa there.  - The City in the Autumn Stars
• To this end, he defies all convention by treating a brain-dead man as if the man were able to perceive and understand normally; intimidating dr Kalidas (Chitra Lakshman) into admitting and treating a suicide patient(Nithin Sathya) interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliates school bullies; effusively thanks a hitherto-underappreciated cleaner; helping a terminally ill cancer patient Zakir (Jayasurya); and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need pharmaceuticals or surgery.  - Vasool Raja MBBS
• He uses the card to interrogate Shaw as to his final plan; Shaw is to shoot the presidential candidate during the convention in order to win overwhelming support for Senator Iselin, the vice-presidential candidate, and the dictatorial powers he'll request following the assassination.  - The Manchurian Candidate
• Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, a lonely and dejected woman pays a gay man to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality in which both reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate.  - Anatomy of Hell
• The team return to the convention to see if their tickets were found, but discover the building has been the subject of a bio-chemical terrorist attack that has quarantined the police inside.  - Reno 911!: Miami
• While performing at a Wayne Charity convention in Gotham City, Dick overhears Zucco threaten the ringmaster, mr Haley, telling him that if he doesn't pay money for "protection", people will die.  - Robin's Reckoning
• As per convention he has shell out dowry for the marriage and somehow falls short of the agreed sum.  - Nala Damayanthi
• Bearing similarities to Altman's 1975 film Nashville, along with a plotless structure, HealtH chronicles the progress of a health-food convention held at a luxury hotel in St Pete Beach, Florida.  - Health (film)
• The film opens at a convention of recliner salesmen, where Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) gives a motivational speech based on his book Get Over It.  - Larger than Life (film)
• As an expression of his discontent with the world, Erik had gone against convention in making a human female avatar, which he named Cindella and had deliberately chosen an almost unknown character class, swashbuckler.  - Epic (Kostick novel)
• Michael ends up leaving the convention room and later entertains Dwight with his tales at the bar.  - Dwight's Speech
• A year later, Christie returns to the convention with Bethany, a new artist.  - Dramacon
• Meanwhile, Patty and Selma meet their Hollywood heartthrob, Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver, who stops by to ask for directions to a convention about his newest show Stargate SG-1, only to find that he is totally uninterested in MacGyver and only did it for the pay.  - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore
• As the only daughter in the family, Liang struggles against her dreams of fame and escaping the old ways of her family, as well as the old Chinese convention of placing boys before girls.  - The Jade Peony
• Meanwhile, Stottlemeyer figures that his career is at risk, since Braddock will probably go back to the convention and he will have to explain his injuries, and he might also twist the story to make Stottlemeyer look like a raging psychopath.  - Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop
• To this end, he defies all convention by treating a brain-dead child called "Sriram" (Vaishnav Tej) as if the kid were able to perceive and understand normally; interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliates school bullies; effusively thanks a hitherto-underappreciated janitor; and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery.  - Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.
• Following a Health convention held in Springfield, the children of Springfield (including Bart) are deemed to be overweight.  - Bart Star
• Also staying at the hotel are a convention load of witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston), the leader of the world's witches, attending their annual meeting.  - The Witches (1990 film)
• Because of George and Harold, the Invention Convention is a bigger disaster than the previous one and the convention has to be called off.  - Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
• When Bart attends a comic book convention dressed as his superhero alter ego Bartman, he finds the first issue of Radioactive Man for $100 at Comic Book Guy's Android's Dungeon.  - Three Men and a Comic Book
• Walter returns from the convention just then and sees Mrs Parker's body, but doesn't realise she is dead.  - Keeping Mum
• Ending up in Kansas City, accompanied by Molly and followed by Charlie, a cattlemen's association convention seems a good place to try to sell the barbed wire.  - The First Traveling Saleslady
• Arenas seamlessly weaves in and out of the domestic voices that scream of the emotion and convention that young Fortunato wants to escape.  - Palace of the White Skunks
• Their entrance into the Business International Association convention - by entering as an ensemble through the hotel's main doors in-sync with the title song's description of them - has all the men in the room ogling them.  - Willie Dynamite
• Cleveland takes Peter to a black convention where Peter blames the assemblage for all the crime and problems and chides them that they should be ashamed for ruining society; they believe he is a racist and chase him through the streets.  - I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar
• Bella, the Irish hotelkeeper's daughter, falls in love, first, with a British soldier; and later with a Portuguese barber, thus defying convention and rebelling against her father.  - Ladysmith (novel)
• They go to the science fiction convention to find the hacker, "Dan Vebber", aRR.  - All About Steve (American Dad!)
• Sophia apologizes to Jimmy, but he is so upset that he takes one of the new cars and races it out of the convention center.  - Driven (2001 film)
• The story starts with Andy Fiddler (Eugene Levy) preparing a speech that he is going to give to a dental convention in Detroit.  - The Man (2005 film)
• At a trade convention in Los Angeles, Frank enlists a past-her-prime prostitute, Pat (Mary Astor), who introduces him to a shady lawyer and a hitman, Johnny (Berry Kroeger).  - Act of Violence
• During one of his tours, a group of drunken convention attendees accidentally kidnap and kill a mob boss.  - Cadillac Beach
• In a space station orbiting the Earth, Uka Uka, having called a convention of villains, berates Doctor Neo Cortex, Tiny Tiger, Dingodile, dr Nefarius Tropy and dr Gin for their low "track record for spreading evil", and orders them to come up with a plan to eliminate Crash Bandicoot, their main opponent.  - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
• dr John Holden (Dana Andrews) arrives in England to attend a convention at which Harrington had intended to expose Karswell's cult.  - Night of the Demon
• agent Cate Archer is sent to Japan to investigate a rumored international crime convention expected to take place in the pastoral village of Inotakimura.  - No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way
• The movie ends with Roosevelt attending the nominating convention of Al Smith in 1928.  - Warm Springs (film)
• While watching television, the Simpson family sees a commercial for the "Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con", a science-fiction convention featuring Mark Hamill and others, and decide to attend.  - Mayored to the Mob
• When a South African country supported by European authority of the Vienna convention attacks Mali, she is taken in a convoy to the atomic site to be shot on camera as a hostage.  - Islands in the Net
• Falk leaves to write songs which celebrate an untainted love and Svanhild sits gloomily amongst the world of convention – a housewife who once had passion and now lives on its memory.  - Love's Comedy
• Having gained fame and fortune with his first book, a bestseller, Devore attends the ABA convention to promote his second book, which he wrote without Just's help.  - Murder at the ABA
• With the newfound information the player can use the clothes in the Changing Room (any matching combination works) to penetrate the Grue convention in the Convention Hall to obtain the glasses.  - Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
• She warns him that no matter what happens at the next convention he must not react.  - Cypher (film)
• Six months later, Miles goes to Las Vegas to give the keynote address at a convention for divorce attorneys.  - Intolerable Cruelty
• Homer is also scared when Marge reminds him for the 11th time they are planning to attend a bartender convention in Aruba.  - Mommie Beerest
• After some reassurances from Clark, they accompany each other to a museum convention Clark is supposed to cover for the Daily Planet, and briefly running into Selina Kyle.  - Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame
• At this time, John Grady begins an affair with Alejandra, which attracts the attention of Alejandra's great aunt, an intelligent and strong-willed widow who in her younger days defied social convention by being involved with Mexican revolutionaries.  - All the Pretty Horses (novel)
• Hexapuma and her crew must patrol the Cluster's many systems to "show the flag" and assist the planetary governments, thus demonstrating Manticore's goodwill, while dealing politically with the various oligarchs and also supporting the convention efforts.  - The Shadow of Saganami
• MOTAS begins in a relatively formulaic fashion; as is the convention in escape the room games, the player awakens in a bedroom that is locked from the outside with no memory of prior events.  - MOTAS
• Melllvar gives Nimoy a body, and orders the actors and the Planet Express crew to participate in a Star Trek convention until the end of time.  - Where No Fan Has Gone Before
• Three astronomers, who have been working on the Moon, Mercury and the asteroid Ceres, meet for the first time in ten years at a convention on Earth.  - The Dying Night
• They clash at the nominating convention in Los Angeles and lobby for the crucial support of dying former President Art Hockstader (Tracy).  - The Best Man (1964 film)
• The People's Liberation Party strike again after the convention center incident in another attempt to disrupt the treaty signing, creating a national emergency by taking over the LAX control tower, broadcasting false Air Traffic Control information (resulting in a midair collision) and installing another Surface-to-Air missile launcher at the top of the tower, threatening aircraft carrying dignitaries headed to the treaty signing.  - SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle
• Burdette overhears the governor yelling at an assistant to take responsibility for transporting a crate of unknown content from Miami to the Republican Party convention in Dallas.  - Smokey and the Bandit II
• A major convention of dentists was supposed to be held in the st Gregory.  - Hotel (novel)
• One night, Krusty performed at a rabbi's convention and a rabbi squirted seltzer on him, washing off his clown makeup.  - Like Father, Like Clown
• The Lambda Lambda Lambdas from Adams College are packing their suitcases to get ready for a national fraternity convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  - Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
• To this end, he defies all convention by treating a brain-dead man called "Anand bhai"(Yatin Karyekar) as if the man were able to perceive and understand normally; interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliates school bullies; effusively thanks a hitherto-underappreciated janitor; and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery.  - Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
• Later that night he is picked up by four men, all dressed in Elvis costumes, Murphy, Hanson, Gus, and Franklin, and they set off the next day headed into a casino holding an Elvis convention intent on robbing it.  - 3000 Miles to Graceland
• Pretending to take Phileas to a convention with Thomas Edison, Xing leads him to an art school where Phileas meets Monique La Roche, a would-be impressionist.  - Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)
• He comes across a coach bus filled with Lucille Ball impersonators going to an I Love Lucy convention and disguises himself as the driver.  - Rat Race (film)
• Wesley is assigned to be the Professor's personal bodyguard during a Fraternity convention in which the leaders of the Fraternity's five chapters will meet.  - Wanted (comics)
• To demonstrate, the Grand High Witch turns a gluttonous child named Bruno Jenkins (who is lured to the convention hall by the promise of free chocolate) into a mouse.  - The Witches (novel)
• Larry Mann (Kevin Spacey) and Phil Cooper (Danny DeVito), who are both experienced marketing representatives working for an industrial lubricants company, attend a trade convention in Wichita in the American Midwest.  - The Big Kahuna (film)
• Upon finally reaching their van, the rescuers flee to a small science fiction convention of some 50 fans at a mansion owned by one of their own.  - Fallen Angels (science fiction novel)
• Lane drives Glass to a hotel where the hacker convention supposedly took place.  - Shattered Glass (film)
• Matthew tracks Danielle down at an adult film convention in Las Vegas where Kelly (Timothy Olyphant), a porn producer and Danielle's ex, menacingly warns Matthew not to interfere with his business.  - The Girl Next Door (2004 film)
• The story is told in the first person by Allen Carpentier (né Carpenter), an agnostic science fiction writer who died in a failed attempt to entertain his fans at a Science fiction convention party.  - Inferno (Niven and Pournelle novel)
• When Evie tells Melanie that her legal guardian/cousin Brooke sent her an email, about going to a convention in Bakersfield for two weeks, she temporarily moves into the Freeland household and discovers that Tracy regularly cuts herself to cope with stress.  - Thirteen (2003 film)
• Shinbone's residents meet to elect two delegates for a statehood convention at the territorial capital.  - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Station model plots use an internationally accepted coding convention that has changed little since August 1, 1941.  - Weather map
• Doc Jennings encouraged the students to think for themselves and not to blindly accept convention wisdom.  - Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
• In a reversal of an earlier convention scene, with Gates appearing on a huge screen, looking down on Jobs onstage (Jobs underestimating how dangerous Gates could become), Jobs now looks down on a complacent and overconfident Gates, prefiguring his eventual return to dominance in the industry.  - Pirates of Silicon Valley
• The organization will be holding its annual convention in Chicago in a week and all members have to take an oath to attend.  - Sons of the Desert
• During a battle on the catwalks of a convention center, in which Devlin accidentally kills the impostor (the real Ruth Marx), Bennett ambushes Devlin with a fire extinguisher, causing him to fall to his death.  - The Net (1995 film)
• After temporarily storing the body in the motel's attic, they are alerted by the motel manager that their room was previously booked for a police convention and that they must check out immediately.  - Drugstore Cowboy
• As they leave they are attacked by Seasholtz and his Trekkie friends, who were attending a Star Trek convention in the same hotel.  - Fanboys (film)
• Bigelow accompanies a group from a sales convention on a night on the town.  - D.O.A. (1950 film)
• In the spring of 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from architecture school because he will not adhere to the school's preference for historical convention in building design.  - The Fountainhead
• Because of this variability, it is appropriate to describe the convention being used for the whiskers and outliers in the caption for the plot.  - Box plot
• In search of Jed, Rose and Gilbert stop at a hotel, where the Corinthian is attending a convention of serial killers.  - The Sandman: The Doll's House
• They meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) at a comic book convention in New York City, where they are promoting their comic Bluntman and Chronic.  - Chasing Amy
• (Galactic era), during the rocky reign of the Emperor Cleon It starts with Seldon's presentation of a paper at a mathematics convention detailing how practical use of psychohistory might theoretically make it possible to predict the future.  - Prelude to Foundation
• mrs Iselin primes her son to assassinate their party's presidential nominee at the nomination convention so that Senator Iselin, as the vice-presidential candidate, will become the nominee by default and be elected with emergency powers that, in mrs Iselin's words, "will make martial law seem like anarchy".  - The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
• Unconstrained by convention and driven by practicality and her desire for a child, Jenny rapes Technical Sergeant Garp, and uses his semen to impregnate herself and names the resulting son "T".  - The World According to Garp
• The only survivor, Professor Chang (an acquaintance of Floyd's from a science convention years earlier) radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out.  - 2010: Odyssey Two
• The ensemble of convention attendees also includes servants Riff Raff, his sister Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia.  - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Guided in by fireworks set by Brandon and his friends, the command module makes a crash landing near a fan convention and comes to a stop after bursting through one wall, which the audience takes as part of the show.  - Galaxy Quest

Example sentences for "convention" in interesting articles

• The idea began with a water convention held in 1999 to draw attention to India's ailing rivers.  - Rainwater Harvesting to Replenish Underground Water in Rajasthan, India
• If it looks like the bytes are backward, though, it's because they are: they're stored in "little-endian" order, where the less-significant bytes are stored first, a common convention for x86 and x86-64 processors.  - Reverse engineering the binary data format for Star Wars: Yoda Stories
• But there is a contrary and much more "realistic" convention represented in, say, the Bayeaux tapestry, whose ornamental border displays numerous severed heads and limbs.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
• (Al Tielemans/The Washington Post) The World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, Pa., is far from the biggest board gaming convention in the world, but for many wargamers, it matters the most.  - In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero
• This was a serious problem, because we now know that the Spaniards had sold the mortars to the Qaddafi government just as Spain was preparing to join the international convention that banned them.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowWe know this because of the work of C. J.  - Why War Reporter C.J. Chivers Had to Suddenly Stop
• This would preserve the social convention of a state-issued unit of account and medium of exchange, albeit with currency now held in digital rather than physical wallets.  - The War on Cash
• We particularly appreciated the first-class focus the language puts on the parts of development that are uninteresting in theory but very important in practice, such as third-party library management, coding convention enforcement, and testing.With that said, we ran into a series of gotchas, irritants, and warts while developing our application, which I’ll elaborate on below.  - Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development
• 1000-X” on the FCC label. In terms of anything published to the public, the peripheral naming convention points very strongly to a model number of 1000 for the base unit: The Amiga 1010 (3.5) and 1020 (5.25) disk drives, 1025 Amiga Transformer, 1050 RAM expansion, 1060 sidecar, 1080 monitor, 1300 genlock, and 1680 modem all follow this 1000-series convention.  - The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster
• I would walk around the state convention seeing young people, knowing that some of them were lgbtq, and that the attitudes they had to live with may put their very lives at risk.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
• In 1993, the first hacker convention opened its doors.  - WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
• First I want to say I can't believe this happened to you or your daughter but I believe I heard you tell most of the story about your daughter before at a convention and I was shocked but didn't know about your ordeal.  - To my daughter's high school programming teacher
• I spoke about this topic at a national convention for language teachers last year (https://youtu.be/UYQpqWwStCw) and have been supporting other teachers to start with the initial steps to transition away from a culture of points to a culture of empowering students to learn, and relearn if necessary.  - How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids from How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning
• It was a principle that made one woman from Dortmund, for example, reveal the names and addresses of DDR citizens who were planning to flee to the West.She said she had no understanding for the fact that "foreigners, but also East Germans, want to take away our jobs".A West German businessman, for his part, offered his services as an informant during a convention in Leipzig.  - East Germany thrived on snitching lovers, fickle friends and envious schoolkids
• I would walk around the state convention seeing young people, knowing that some of them were lgbtq, and that the attitudes they had to live with may put their very lives at risk.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
• Al Green (D-Tex.) listens to Hillary Clinton at the NAACP annual convention in Cincinnati on July 18.  - NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools
• Nor can you possibly hope to find all the other nooks and crannies of code all over the world this snippet has crept into. What I propose is this: // codesnippet:1c125546-b87c-49ff-8130-a24a3deda659 - (void)fadeOutWindow:(NSWindow*)window{ // code } } Attach a one line comment convention with a new GUID to any code snippet you publish on the web.  - A Modest Proposal for the Copy and Paste School of Code Reuse
• He demonstrated his prototype computer at a high school teacher's convention in southern California, and when the computer went into production, its advertising was focussed on the schools market, something he now feels was a mistake."It should have been at the hobby-oriented people," he says.  - The man who made 'the world's first personal computer'

Meaning of "convention" in English

• the act of convening
• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
• something regarded as a normative example
  Examples
  - violence is the rule not the exception
  - his formula for impressing visitors
  
• (diplomacy) an international agreement
• a large formal assembly

Meaning of "convention" in Hindi

• सम्मेलन ( Sammelan)
• विशेष अवसर पर बुलाई हुई सभा ( Vishesh avasar par bulai hui sabha, vishesh avasar par bulaaee huee sabhaa, wishesh awasar par bulai hui sabha)
• प्रतिज्ञा ( Pratigya, pratigyaa)
• संधिपत्र ( Sandhipatr)
• संविद ( Sanvid, sanwid)
• रिवाज ( Rivaj, rivaaj, riwaz)
• दस्तूर ( Dastur, dastoor)
• चलन ( Chalan)
• प्रथा ( Pratha, prathaa)
• रीति ( Riti, reeti)
• व्यवहार ( Vyavahar, vyavahaar, wyawahar)
• आचार ( Aachar, aachaar)
• लोक संमति ( Lok sanmati)
• सभा ( Sabha, sabhaa)
• करार ( Karar, karaar)
• समझौता ( Samajhauta, samajhautaa, samazhauta)
• परंपरा ( Paranpara, paranparaa)

Synonyms of "convention"

• formula
• normal
• conventionalism
• conventionality
• convening
• rule
• pattern

Antonyms of "convention"

• unconventionality

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