convention

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Kerr and her friend worked their way through the convention in less than 45 minutes on Friday, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Photos of the event show a grey convention centre space with pink cardboard cut-out Barbie signs.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

And, at its core, it was simply a convention.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Although Iran has never ratified the convention, "the transit passage regime is widely regarded as part of customary international law," Marco Roscini, international law professor at Westminster Law School, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

The old Antifederalist coalition that Madison had opposed so effectively at the Virginia ratifying convention in 1788 believed with some justification that their cause had never really been defeated, merely outmaneuvered.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis