Sentence examples for a constitutional article from inspiring English sources

When Ennahdha drafted a constitutional article ambiguously declaring that Tunisian women should play a "complementary" role to men, the movement was forced to retreat in the face of strong criticism.

Security forces wielding fire hoses and tear-gas launchers charged a group of more than 100 demonstrators protesting a constitutional article granting the army authority to try civilians in military courts, chasing them onto side streets and detaining as many as 70, rights groups said.

They crafted a constitutional article calling for the creation of a new federal department -- the Department of Youth.

Their article asserted that this new cabinet-level position should be headed by a young person, someone under age 18, and that young people themselves (those under 18) should be able to vote directly, yay or nay, for the person the president nominates for this position (hence the need for a constitutional article).

For example, his film Nobody Dies (on view in Seattle) addresses Article 9, a constitutional clause created after World War II to prevent Japan from maintaining a standing army.

The trial of civilians in military courts was protected by a different constitutional article.

But he said there needed to be a debate on the constitutional article granting special status to the disputed Himalayan former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir because it is "of no benefit to the people [there]" and refused to comment on the flashpoint issue of rebuilding a Hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya.

Instead, he began talking about the government, which catapulted the movement into existence in 1988, then let it founder, leaving quilombo residents to wonder whether the constitutional article will wither into a broken promise.

During Mobutu's tenure, a common joke imagined a constitutional provision — Article 15 — that gave officials the right to solicit bribes and to steal.

From a constitutional standpoint, Article II provides that the President must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed".

The number refers to the constitutional article allowing people the right to oppose an undemocratic government.