Mr. Giscard compares the event to the American constitutional convention of 1787, and the job is expected to take two years.

Never in an American political convention had so many said so little so fast.

He teased the author that he ought to revise the wording of the voice-over to reflect the changes in American conventions since 1960.

From across the Atlantic, the peculiarities of the American political conventions were also a source of great curiosity.

In 1948 he helped to pioneer television coverage of American political conventions in 1948.

Balloons are the whole point of American political conventions.

His victory is still considered by most political historians to be one of the most dramatic moments in the history of American presidential conventions.

And I said, 'It's going to look like an American convention.'

Canadian English spelling is largely a blend of British and American conventions.

Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American conventions.