Many old conventions have been replaced or superseded by laws.

Using such an element required the typist to continue the old convention.

The old convention of asking for the woman's number could be imprudent today.

Only a handful of staff still manned the store, keeping up the old conventions.

I mean, in some detached sense, if you strip away all the old conventions, what's wrong with what she's done?

But since the 90's, there has been an extraordinary willingness on the part of both artists and designers to get beyond the old conventions.

Regardless of the old convention, she crossed it and waited for him.

The quantities q and k are not the same as those in the older convention.

I know I won't be happy if all the old western conventions are done away with.