Synonyms for conventions
con·ven·tions

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1. List of paraphrases for "conventions":

   agreements, convention, convenciones, treaties, covenants, convenios, instruments, deals, accords, congress, contracts

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1. Valentin Zellweger:

   There is a glaring vacuum at the heart of the Geneva Conventions system.

2. Darpana Sheth:

   There are over 200 editorials arguing to do away with civil forfeitures. It was part of both the Democratic and Republican platforms at last summer’s conventions, i ca n’t think of any other issue that enjoys such cross-aisle support.

3. August Strindberg:

   Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

4. Denis Diderot:

   It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

5. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.