#convent

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#convention #far #fewer #geneva #geneva convention

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#begin #bound #come #conventions #exist

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#become #constitution #convention #convinced #efforts

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#convention #convinced #democracy #direct #exposure

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#bound #convention #governments #implement #legally

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #conventional #european #extreme