Sentence examples for ban land from inspiring English sources

She also was involved in efforts to ban land mines.

Egeland represented Norway in negotiating the Ottawa Treaty (1997) to ban land mines.

Petitions from colleagues in the international campaign to ban land mines, one of the senator's favorite causes.

The idea of adopting a minefield first took shape in the fall of 1997, when the International Treaty to Ban Land Mines was opened for signing in Ottawa.

Fihn, who is Swedish, said the movement was inspired by a similar coalition that mobilized support for a treaty to ban land mines.

One of the adoption program's supporters is Jody Williams, who won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign to ban land mines.

European diplomats harp on America's refusal to agree to a global treaty banning land mines.

That visit had a big impact, as did her work on the previously under-publicized cause of banning land mines.

(d) Not to join the hundred and fifty-plus countries that have signed an international treaty banning land mines.

The shift comes as 68 American senators have urged President Obama to consider signing the international treaty that bans land mines.

The administration has no interest in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, banning all nuclear test explosions, and is expected to reject the treaty banning land mines.