Sentence examples for a historic statement from inspiring English sources

This made him issue a historic statement earlier this year calling for respect for the right of the Baha'i people in Iran as citizens of the country.

Etxeberria refused to be drawn, however, on exactly when Eta might issue a historic statement announcing the end of a campaign of violence that has claimed some 830 lives.

After initially resisting questions from reporters about the potentially landmark nature of her candidacy, insisting that she was focused on Tuesday's primaries, Clinton acknowledged that many of her voters have been moved by the prospect of a woman in the White House, which she said would be "a great statement, a historic statement about what kind of country we are".

When Hilary Clinton made a historic statement in support of LGBT people everywhere, "LGBT rights are human rights and human rights are LGBT rights" the importance of global solidarity began to resonate with most activists.

In 1965, the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council issued a historic statement, Nostra Aetate, which declared that Jews as a people are not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus, and they should not be seen as accursed or rejected by God.

In brief and between sips of coffee -- refilled from time to time by Alejandrina -- the reunion became a civic staff council, where rather than maneuver plastic soldiers on a war map, they rearranged ideas on an historic statement.

He pauses, as if issuing an historic statement from the podium: "Well, this is completely false".

Collectively, their voices made a powerful and historic statement.

The cables also suggest: Adams was a powerful voice in arguing that the IRA had to stand down during negotiations in the run-up to the Provisionals' historic statement in July 2005 of a "formal end to the armed campaign".

All the republicans arrested in connection with the Northern Bank robbery were released without charge". Adams was a powerful voice in arguing that the IRA had to stand down during negotiations in the run-up to the Provisionals' historic statement in July 2005 of a "formal end to the armed campaign".

"Today Chicago made a historic, kind statement, and I think its ramifications will be felt in other parts of the country," Mr. Bauston said.