Sentence examples for activating article from inspiring English sources

To summarise briefly: sterling continues to tank on the currency exchanges, the main political parties are convulsed with leadership struggles that make Game of Thrones look like polite society, and there's even talk of a legal challenge to the government over activating article 50, the clause that would set in train the UK's departure from the EU.

Chancellor George Osborne said the UK would activate Article 50 only when it has a "clear view" of how its future relations with the bloc would look.

Importantly, the election must be held before any attempt is made to activate article 50, the legal mechanism triggering the negotiations for EU exit.

With Britain yet to activate article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which starts the formal process of negotiating an exit from the EU, European politicians and business leaders have been talking about the potential to shift jobs across the Channel.

Can we be sure these will be in principle resolved before she activates article 50?" Her first "tricky task" would be "apportioning portfolios to her various rivals" and the trickiest of all would be the fate of Boris Johnson.

If the supremes agree that the government has to ask parliament before it can activate Article 50, it is as yet unclear how Mrs May intends to conform to the instruction.

The self-titled "council of wise men", who plan to meet Suleiman today, are hoping to activate article 139 of the Egyptian constitution, which enables Mubarak to delegate his powers to a deputy while retaining his presidential post in a symbolic capacity.

May's lack of interest in rushing to activate article 50 and her relatively less contentious relationship with the EU when compared with her (now long gone) rivals, as well as the general cheer at the mere fact of the UK once again having a PM, is arguably responsible for the rise from the FTSE and pound, both of which improved on their morning performances".

Once a government activates the article, it has just two years to negotiate the exit settlement.

The evolution of '(hyper)activated' journal articles is discussed in a further article in this issue [17].

One reason France hasn't activated Nato's article 5 after the Paris attacks is that it wouldn't have helped open up channels with Putin.