Sentence examples for a foundational document from inspiring English sources

This 1912 report, like its Congolese predecessor, is a foundational document of human rights.

Her self-defense, in the form of a letter to her bishop, is a foundational document of feminist history.

Instead there's roughly $250bn, reported Steyer-Taylor researchers in a 2014 white paper (pdf) that became a foundational document for the new initiative.

Therefore, she said, the religiosity of the founders is not only established and rooted in a foundational document but linked to the Constitution.

This was the 13th-century monarch who waged a battle royal against the barons who had forced him to sign the Magna Carta, a foundational document of modern democracy and an absurd excuse for such go-go gore.

In Northern Ireland, the Human Rights Act has been accepted as a foundational document, and since 1998 the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has been busy, not trying to get rid of it or replace it, but attempting to build upon it.

America needed a new system and a new foundational document, and the Federalist was the justification for a new social contract in the former British colonies that we now call the eastern seaboard -- except for Florida, which was at the time a Spanish possession.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that fireworks are awesome, that a four-day weekend is long overdue, that a hot dog or two once a year probably won't kill you, and that the Declaration of Independence is a superb foundational document, even if many of us haven't read it since grade school and couldn't quote exactly what's in there.

However, these conversations are particularly useful now that the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a viable, foundational document.

Perhaps it is the constitution, the foundational document of a legal system, which establishes a legislature entitled to enact procedural and substantive rules governing court decisions and specifies who can exercise the power of a judge and under what circumstances.

As a consequence, they have made a mockery of our most basic foundational document.