Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts / Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims / Geneva Conventions of 1949
lit. at first raw, later ripe (idiom) / unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers at first meeting, but soon friends / awkward at first but becoming skillful later / an acquired taste
Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders / Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement / Schengen Implementation Convention
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) / (slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year / (of a business) to be profitable / (of a stock market) to rise / (sport) to win one's first match of a competition
Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities / Dublin Convention
International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law with Respect to Collisions Between Vessels / International Convention on Collision of Ships
Andrés Bello Convention concerning the educational, scientific and cultural integration of the countries of the Andean Region / Andrés Bello Convention
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Testing, Production, Stockpiling, Transfer, Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons and on Their Elimination / Model Nuclear Weapons Convention
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine / Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
convention on international regulation of brokering and shipping agents / convention on brokering and shipping
The four tones
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