Geneva Conventions

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A set of international rules that govern the treatment of prisoners, the sick and wounded, and civilians during war. Under the Geneva Conventions, for example, ambulances and military hospitals and their staff are officially neutral and are not to be fired upon. Nearly all countries of the world have agreed to the Geneva Conventions.

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The first Geneva Convention was drawn up in the late nineteenth century and concerned only the sick and wounded in war. It has been revised several times since to accommodate new wartime conditions.

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How to use Geneva Conventions in a sentence

Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
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To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.
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Experts pointed us to identical passages in each of the four Geneva treaties, known as "Common Article 3."
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Though her work discords with the conventions of American medicine, she sees herself on the side of an older tradition.
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They have conventions for dance, and these kids go around the country as the winner.
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Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
John Alphonsus Turretini died; professor of ecclesiastical history at Geneva, distinguished for his learning.
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I always thought that people wore it very very short if they despised the conventions of society.
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There are certain social conventions attached even to a Dragon Maid.
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From Berlin we travelled to Geneva, where we spent ten days with my sister and her family (the Davidovs).
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