Sentence examples for after a constitution from inspiring English sources

Elections should be held only after a constitution is in place.

Finally, after a constitution was promulgated and general elections were held, a Franco-Laotian convention was signed in July 1949 by which Laos was granted limited self-government within the French Union.

The original timetable for the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq called for self-rule to start in late 2004 or 2005 -- after a constitution was written under American guidance.

But according to a second draft of an American and British resolution for the United Nations Security Council on Iraqi sovereignty, circulated among Council members on Tuesday night, the United States security mandate would extend to December 2005, after a constitution had been approved and a permanent government put in place.

Both Morsi's supporters and their pro-democracy opponents are regrouping after a constitution drafted by the presidents' allies passed in a nationwide referendum in early December 2012 in which a meager third of eligible voters went to the polls.

Both Morsi's supporters and their pro-democracy opponents are regrouping after a constitution drafted by the presidents' allies passed in a nationwide referendum in early December 2012 in which a meagre third of eligible voters went to the polls.

Here, violence and politics are still intertwined — eight years after the American invasion, six years after ratifying a Constitution, and after several national and local elections, all ratified by international groups as free and fair.

After all, a Constitution is "intended to endure for ages to come," and must adapt itself to a future that can only be "seen dimly," if at all.

In its first official response to the crisis, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces repeated its commitment to its "road map" of the transition, including next week's elections, but it did nothing to move up or clarify its exit date, now set for some time after drafting of a constitution and electing of a president in perhaps 2013 or beyond.

The election of a permanent Iraqi government, after the drafting of a constitution, was to have been the third step.

The deal calls for the generals to hand over power by the end of June, after the ratification of a constitution and the election of a president.