"convention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many of the moderates stayed away from the Houston convention entirely, and those who went shrank from a floor fight or oratorical combat with conservatives.
- An administration official said she would speak at the Houston convention on Aug. 19, the night President Bush will be renominated.
- These are Republicans who shy away from what is left of the Rockefeller wing, but cannot identify with the delegates who dominated the Houston convention.
- That politics of exclusion opens an opportunity for Republicans at their Houston convention.
- The Houston convention was significant in a number of ways.
- In his view, it is "conventional wisdom" among Republicans that the 1992 Houston convention "was a disaster."
- Some Republicans, moreover, professed to be backing away last week from the "religious war" that Patrick Buchanan proclaimed at the Houston convention.
- The roots of fear - religious, sexual, social - seem to lie deep in American life and particularly among the so-called conservatives who dominated the Houston convention.
- If you wonder why Americans have become so cynical about politics, take a close look at George Bush's acceptance speech at the Houston convention.
- Intent on erasing the bad memories from the Houston convention and the November election, the Republican Party met here in search of its identity.
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