Sentence examples for basis of the declaration from inspiring English sources

When the lawyer claimed that the commandments were the basis of the Declaration of Independence, Scalia called the argument "idiotic".

His point is that he is, in effect, rewriting the Constitution for the country on the basis of the Declaration of Independence.

We live in a modern European country, yet we have a law that divides people up into types and categories and says that the basis of the declaration on human rights is a crime.

A charter of children's rights drafted by Jebb, known as the Geneva Declaration (1923), was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and later became the basis of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which has been ratified by almost all countries.

"The annual report was drawn up in good faith on the basis of the declaration by this outside bank," Messier said.

Within 30 days of receipt of a declaration, CFIUS is to request a conventional notice, initiate a unilateral review, and either inform the parties that review cannot be completed on the basis of the declaration or clear the transaction.

We therefore invite the Finnish Presidency to take the work forward within the General Affairs Council on the basis of this declaration and the report of the Presidency to the European Council meeting in Cologne.

On the basis of this declaration, on the basis of the evidence before us, our path for the coming weeks is clear.

Immediately following the announcement of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in November 1947, which laid the basis for the declaration of the State of Israel, thousands of Jewish people in Palestine, men and women, young and old, spontaneously burst into dance in the streets, singing and dancing in circles, linking hands over shoulders.

On the order of King Henry IV, he wrote Les Libertés de l'église gallicane (1594; "Liberties of the Gallican Church"), a work echoing the position of the French legal scholars in the conflict between the government and the Holy See; it became the basis for the declaration of the French clergy (1682) concerning the authority of the pope.

I think it was the basis for the Declaration of Independence and the basis for the Constitution".