Sentence examples for adopting resolutions from inspiring English sources

Much of the session consisted of adopting resolutions of thanks for individuals who had made that city safe by defeating Cornwallis at Yorktown.

They also alienated the Freedmen who were now the largest block of voters in the state, by adopting resolutions against them: their first resolution of the convention was "Resolved, that we are in favor of a White Man's Government in a White Man's country".

By adopting resolution 64/134 proclaiming the Year, UN Member States confirmed the importance the international community places on integrating youth-related issues into global, regional, and national development agendas.

Civic bodies adopted resolutions against the introduction of six-hundred-bullet-a-minute guns in New York.

In recent years it failed to even adopt resolutions on crises as grave as Iraq, Chechnya and Darfur.

Both the Council and the General Assembly quickly adopted resolutions condemning the attacks and endorsing an American response.

Recently, two towns in this part of Slovakia, Nagov and Rokytovce, adopted resolutions forbidding Gypsies from settling on their territory.

In June dissatisfied Petrograd workers and soldiers, using Bolshevik slogans, staged a demonstration and adopted resolutions against the government.

Each year delegates from the 53 member states meet for six weeks to name the worst offending countries and adopt resolutions condemning their abuses.

As an example, Mr. Romero said that communities around the country have adopted resolutions objecting to the antiterrorism legislation passed in the fall of 2001, known as the Patriot Act.

An even more dramatic measure of growing concern has been that three states and 133 localities have adopted resolutions critical of the USA Patriot Act.