Sentence examples for a constitution approved from inspiring English sources

An elected assembly, almost entirely composed of his supporters, produced a constitution – approved by referendum in December 1999 – that extended the presidential term to six years and allowed immediate re-election.

The time is over-ripe for Britain to join the rest of the democratic world by placing government under the supreme law of a constitution approved by the British people as a whole.

A leaflet circulated there pronounced demands almost identical to those uttered in Egypt: a transitional government, a constitution approved by referendum, parliamentary and presidential elections and a democratic state built on pluralism, the peaceful transfer of power, the rule of law and guarantees of human rights and the protection of freedoms.

Many Kenyans and outside observers doubted just a year ago that Mr. Moi, 78, would ever cede power, even though a Constitution approved midway through his 24-year tenure gave him just two more terms as president, until the end of 2002.

"What kind of democracy will make me look to the Kurds with hate while we are the sons of one people and one nation?" Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the government was simply following a constitution approved by the people and insisted that relocations would be voluntary.

Although a constitution approved by voters in 2001 limited presidents to two terms, Wade persuaded a court to allow him to seek a third because his first term began before the constitution was adopted.

It was suspended after a military government took power in 1968, and a new constitution, approved in a national referendum in 1974 and enacted in 1979, made the Malian People's Democratic Union (Union Démocratique du Peuple Malien; UDPM) the country's sole legal party until 1991.

A draft constitution approved by a national referendum in October 2005 called for a new legislature, the members of which largely would be elected from constituent districts (some members would be appointed).

The post was created in a new Constitution approved in a referendum last month.

Under a revised constitution approved in a 2015 referendum, most state powers in the small, former Soviet state have shifted to the prime minister and the presidency has become a largely ceremonial post.

His first act was to call a Constituent Assembly, which wrote a new constitution, approved by referendum.