Sentence examples for The acceding from inspiring English sources

But as the abortive Nice summit discussions on limiting the size of the European Commission to less than one per member country showed, getting such a change agreed may prove extremely hard.How long EU governments have to do it depends largely on how soon the acceding countries will be ready to join.

Romano Prodi, the commission president, wants candidates by end-February.The signs are that the acceding countries will play it dismayingly safe.

Twice in the past fortnight, Cameron has threatened to veto future enlargement of the EU unless there are new curbs agreed on freedom of movement – a fundamental EU principle – for the acceding countries.

During the acceding process the Croatian government strongly committed to an intensive development in the renewable energy sector.

However, a UK spokesman at the UN said: "The procedures of the Chemical Weapons Convention assume a good faith and a commitment on the part of the acceding state which simply cannot be extended to Syria immediately after it has used chemical weapons against its own people".

The nature of the subject matters varied depending on the acceding state.

Those included walking away from the bid, acceding to the demands of the preferred shareholders, or seeking some third solution.

On the other, acceding to diplomatic pressure would signal to other potential customers that France is not a reliable partner.

The first move, acceding to the Electoral Commission's rewrite of the referendum question was, perhaps, inevitable.

In 1947 the rulers of the region acceded to the newly independent country of India.

The Republic of the Congo acceded to the Optional Protocol.