Sentence examples for a guarantee of representation from inspiring English sources

In suggesting that the Bill did indeed violate the Articles of Union, it was submitted that, prior to Union, the Estates of Parliament, Scotland's old, pre-Union parliament, was entitled to impose conditions, and that one fundamental condition was a guarantee of representation of Scotland in both Houses of Parliament at Westminster.

Calpers, the California state employees pension fund, wants a guarantee of future representation for institutional investors.

The Party of Unity, which represents mostly ethnic Hazaras and Shiite Muslims, both minorities, said that it would not withdraw its troops until there was a guarantee of proportional representation in the government controlled by Ismail Khan, the Northern Alliance commander who governed here for four years before being imprisoned by the Taliban.

Each party could only run one, so it was a guarantee of minority party representation, which mostly you would expect to mean Republicans, but in Manhattan it could be a Liberal Party member instead.

They will have no guarantee of representation on the board.

Almost all have opted for parliamentary systems with some form of proportional representation — systems that combine most of the "energy" of a unitary government like Britain's, which can carry out its program and be judged on the results, with a guarantee of both majority rule and minority representation, which neither the British nor the American systems can reliably provide.

There has been some relaxation of caste distinction among young urban dwellers and those living abroad, but caste identity has remained strong especially since groups such as the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have a guaranteed percentage of representation in national and state legislatures.

For example, ethnic minority representation within the government coalition is not in itself a guarantee of passage of the policy preferences of the minorities.

Nor was tribalism a guarantee of victory.

They gave us a guarantee of $600.

That is not a guarantee, of course.