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Peru, (92) for example, the Court added a modification to conventionality control, determining that the "organs of the Judiciary" must carry it out "obviously, within the framework of their respective competences and of the corresponding procedural regulations.

Contestation and deference in the Inter-American human rights system

The above discrepancy between an idealized concept of a conventional sense and its usage-driven profile points to a crucial question concerning the definition and function of conventionality in the process of meaning construction.

An integrated approach to conventionality and its implications for the semantics of emotion terms

It is, moreover, the ironic revelation of the conventionality of cliches and commonsense truths that imparts a large part of the pleasure in Pelevin's books.

Viktor Pelevin. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

When she wanted a baby, she shunned the conventionality of a relationship and 'auditioned' potential fathers.

Time catches up with mistress of shock and awe

Hence, the early Beitrage zur Philosophie des Lebens (1780), trying out various forms, suggests paradigmatically not just that the 'fit' between literary form and life experience is only conventional, but also that the awareness of its mere conventionality immediately reveals aesthetic priorities (i.

Karl Philipp Moritz: Literarische Experimente auf dem Weg zum psychologischen Roman

Fiennes is Jack Tanner, confirmed bachelor and free-thinker, in denial over his love for Ann Whitefield (Juliet Stevenson) and vocally opposed to marriage, which he sees as an institution perpetuated by feminine artifice, tempting men into a lifetime of meaningless conventionality.

Shaw, George Bernard. Man and Superman

Weigel criticizes attempts to transfer evolutionary models to culture (like Dawkins's introduction of the unit Meme or Wilson's idea of genetic-cultural co-evolution), arguing that they can only describe cultural phenomena that display a high degree of conventionality and that they ignore the fact that cultural phenomena do not transfer and reproduce "from brain to brain" (Dawkins), but via verbal or symbolic media.

Weigel, Sigrid. Genea-Logik. Generation, Tradition und Evolution zwischen Kulturund Naturwissenschaften

That's important, because conventionality begets conformity in some ways in excessive use," he said.

Teens' illicit drug use data 'mostly good news'

While The Indian Clerk is an examination of the architecture of human love, both platonic and erotic, on a deeper level it is also an indictment of conventionality in all of its forms.

Attractive numbers

Half-Jackie (Moody Marcus) is our amoral court jester, a wily and expert pickpocket, flaunting conventionality.

Leah B: doing time in a police holding cell for women

It is a world so lacking in imagination and so stifling to the individuals within it who dare to vary slightly that it would seem like a caricature of 1950s and early 1960s conventionality if not for Ludwig's honest, clear writing and patient, compassionate observations that render the characters and their insular world entirely believable.

Family resemblances: two novelists from different cultures describe similar conflicts

Ironic, then, that "The Invasion," the fourth film to be made from the material, keels over dead, killed by Hollywood conventionality and bland uniformity.