Sentence examples for adopts a statement from inspiring English sources

The purpose seems to be quite clearly to prepare access to files in the event that the commission adopts a statement of objections, which seems increasingly likely".

In 1999, the American Association of University Professors adopted a statement urging that colleges not use collegiality as a category.

On Monday, the 15-member United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a statement endorsing the two-state solution.

Today the rather clueless Republican platform committee adopted a statement calling for a ban on abortion with no exception for rape.

The North Korean move comes after the United Nations Security Council adopted a statement last weekend condemning the attack that sank the South Korean warship Cheonan in March, killing 46 sailors.

Foreign Secretary William Hague urged the "discredited" Syrian regime to end its violent repression as the United Nations Security Council adopted a statement condemning attacks on civilians and widespread human rights abuses.

But the council will not formally adopt a statement until Sunday morning because of what some diplomats called a face-saving gesture toward Beirut.

France called a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to adopt a statement condemning the sentence, but the talks were adjourned until Wednesday, Reuters reported.

At the meeting, the Council also adopted a statement condemning "in the strongest possible terms" an attack on the peacekeeping force last week that left seven members dead.

The Security Council abandoned efforts to adopt a statement on the crisis in Gaza after Libya and the United States were unable to agree on the wording.

In February, an ecumenical coalition, the Call to Renewal, adopted a statement discussing a need to make aiding the poor an issue in the presidential campaign and urging local religious groups to work together to fight poverty.