11.   The city too busy to hate is apparently too busy to host a presidential convention.

12.   The company said its CBS network and television stations were hurt by the ratings decline during the Olympics, lower advertising rates and the cost of covering presidential conventions.

13.   The play is about a presidential convention and the backroom machinations between a scheming opportunist modeled after Richard Nixon and an intellectual moralist resembling Adlai Stevenson.

14.   The purpose of roll call votes at presidential nominating conventions these days is to remind folks of the alphabetical order of the states.

15.   The presidential conventions indeed are fake.

16.   There is not much time left for the business of legislating before summer arrives and both parties are overwhelmed by the presidential conventions and the campaign.

17.   Then came the modern presidential nominating conventions.

18.   Then he flies to California, which sends the largest number of delegates to the presidential nominating convention.

19.   These men too looked like certain winners more than a year before the primaries and the presidential conventions.

20.   They have sent delegates to both presidential conventions this year, and affluent ones are contributing to political parties and candidates.