Sentence examples for constitution at the time from inspiring English sources

The coalition opposed the Constitution at the time.

The song's lyrics were written in all 14 languages recognised by the constitution at the time.

The Salvadoran court ruled late Tuesday that the former officers could not be sent abroad because the country's Constitution at the time of the killings prohibited the extradition of Salvadoran citizens.

(Thomas A. Hendricks, Cleveland's first vice president, had died during the first year of his term, and the Constitution at the time did not allow for a replacement.) Later that month, the Republicans held their convention, initially nominating James G. Blaine, who had served as secretary of state under James Garfield and had run against Cleveland in 1884.

Breathitt was limited to one term by Kentucky's constitution at the time.

As Alito said in his own confirmation hearing, "In interpreting the Constitution, I think we should look to the text of the Constitution, and we should look to the meaning that someone would have taken from the text of the Constitution at the time of its adoption".

The convention did adopt a "cruel and unusual punishments" clause, but there is no reason to believe that it afforded New Yorkers any more rights than the Eighth Amendment to the federal Constitution, which, at the time, did not apply to the states, and which banned only torturous methods of execution, not executions themselves.

The Constitution was at the time sailing with two captured British prizes, the former and.

A replacement constitution was, at the time of Saprang's statement, being drafted by a military appointed panel.

On December 29 he was elected to a full six-year term (by the Mississippi legislature, as the constitution mandated at the time).

Machot had helped advise the formulation of South Sudan's constitution, but at the time of the trip he was working as a manager of a Costco in Seattle.