Sentence examples for backed a resolution from inspiring English sources

The council's assembly backed a resolution to withdraw the voting rights of Russia's 18-member delegation.

And at the state Republican convention on April 14, nearly half the delegates backed a resolution supporting civil unions.

The country's largest lawyers' group has backed a resolution calling on all state legislatures to let same-sex couples marry.

Congress backed a resolution of disapproval, with the Senate voting 59-to-41 59-to-41 59-to-41he measure.

Nearly 100 members of the House of Representatives backed a resolution calling on the US government to drop the MEK from the terrorist list.

All but two of the organization's 64 board members, who include many religious leaders, backed a resolution supporting same-sex marriage, according to people told of the decision.

And, in the precarious days of the Libyan conflict, she persuaded the Security Council to back a resolution allowing airstrikes.

But he later sided with conservatives in backing a resolution in 1998 that declared homosexual activity "incompatible with Scripture" and advised against the ordination of homosexuals.

But Washington took an unprecedented step in August of declining to back a resolution that would have retained Europe's dominance.

Republicans are backing a resolution that would stop the F.C.C. from enforcing network neutrality laws, demonstrating that online speech remains vulnerable to deregulatory zeal.

In July, U.S. officials forced Ecuador to refrain from backing a resolution in support of breast-feeding, opposing decades of academic consensus.