Sentence examples for a resolution describing from inspiring English sources

Only a few weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed a resolution describing Abkhazia as "occupied" by Russia.

Turkey's prime minister warned of serious damage to US-Turkish relations today after a congressional committee approved a resolution describing the massacre of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire during the first world war as genocide.

Earlier this month, America's Congress passed a resolution describing the killings of black Darfuris as "genocide", though the Bush administration has so far stopped short of using this description.

It was a disappointing moment for Turks to learn that the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to approve a resolution describing the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first world war as genocide.

Unsafe in their home country, floods of Darfuris have been crossing into neighbouring Chad.Last week, America's Congress passed a resolution describing the killings of black Darfuris as "genocide", though the Bush administration has so far stopped short of using this description.

IN ONE of the more dramatic scenes in modern diplomacy, a resolution describing Zionism as a form of racism, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1975, was excoriated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America's UN ambassador, as an "infamous act" and a "terrible lie".

But Mr. McCormack said the administration's task had been complicated by a House committee's vote this month that approved a nonbinding resolution describing the killings of 1.5 million Armenians beginning in 1915 as genocide, a move that so infuriated Turkey that the government recalled its ambassador to the United States.

The move is the latest in a series of diplomatic retaliations by Israel against the countries that supported a UN security council resolution describing Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a "flagrant violation" of international law and an obstacle to peace.

The Sri Lankan government has declared that it will not accept the new resolution, describing it as country specific and unsupportive of the regime.

A UN resolution describes the province as part of Yugoslavia; but that country is currently being reshaped, under pressure from the European Union, into a looser partnership known simply as "Serbia and Montenegro", after its two constituent states.Where does that leave Kosovo?

Administration loyalists are working hard to charm, pacify, or intimidate the project's critics, and they're planning parliamentary shenanigans at Thursday's faculty meeting to neuter a proposed resolution (described by its author here) whose purpose is to put Yale on notice that many faculty question the venture on academic-freedom and civil-liberties grounds.