Sentence examples for british declaration from inspiring English sources

When the Germans attacked Poland (September 1, 1939), Chamberlain countered with a British declaration of war (September 3).

How often do Palestinian refugees invoke a British declaration in 1917 promising a Jewish homeland in Palestine as the source of their woes today?

The British declaration closely follows other high-profile European nations: Norway and Spain have already set quotas for women's representation on boards of directors.

Many in the republican base had been told the ceasefire would deliver a British declaration of withdrawal or even a united Ireland within a short time.

Hertz, a zealous Zionist, played an important role in eliciting the Balfour Declaration in 1917 (a British declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine) and, later, enthusiastically implemented its policies.

The British declaration of war on Germany on August 4, 1914, brought an end to the threat of civil war in Ireland, which since March had occupied Prime Minister H.H. Asquith's Liberal cabinet almost to the exclusion of everything else.

In a pointed reference to British declarations in the Falklands war, the IRA in Dublin issued a statement claiming responsibility.

As a consequence, George Canning, the British foreign minister, suggested a joint U.S.-British declaration forbidding future colonization in Latin America.

These days that makes Germany feel all the more left out, particularly since the joint French-British declaration in St Malo in 1999 to create the embryo of a European defence policy together.

Furthermore, it welcomed the Franco-British declaration made on 4 December 1998 in St . Malo

The cease-fire declaration followed a British announcement that it was deploying warplanes to bases from which to start enforcing the U.N. resolution.