Sentence examples for charters such as from inspiring English sources

A medieval borough with a castle (now in ruins) dating from about 1126, the town of Newport enjoyed commercial privileges conferred by various charters, such as that of 1385.

This puts pressure on the Federal Reserve, but it is the OCC that is the regulator for the big banks with national charters such as Citibank, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.

States with home-rule charters, such as Illinois, allow for local or municipal governments to extend greater or lesser freedoms or privileges to its citizens if they want.

However, there are prominent examples of unionized charters, such as Green Dot Public Schools, which operates 20 charter schools in Los Angeles County.

Even leading advocates of charters, such as the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, have embraced misleading data points about charters and have begun to allow bureaucratic forces to strangle the charter sector's innovation.

The junta's constitution-writing body has already backtracked on several undemocratic clauses it tried to slip into the new charter, such as permitting an unelected prime minister and allowing for a "crisis council", including military chiefs, to step in and solve political conflicts.

The 1916 statute of incorporation established this institution amongst a small number of other patriotic and national organizations which are similarly chartered, such as the Girl Scouts of the USA, the American Legion, the Red Cross, Little League Baseball, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Charter critics, such as Western Michigan University's Gary Miron, who has evaluated charters for various states, take issue with CREDO's glowing press release.

In September, Superior Court Judge James Crandall sided with Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates, who argued that the law is unconstitutional as it applies to charter cities such as Huntington, which are run by a charter adopted by local voters.

In contrast, charter schools almost exclusively serve students from poor households, and "charter parks" such as Brooklyn's Prospect, adjoin low-income minority neighborhoods and draw heavily from them.

"Issues that don't affect charter schools," such as rules over teacher tenure at traditional schools, "don't make sense" for the charter group to be directly involved in, he said.