Sentence examples for constitution describes from inspiring English sources

But the constitution describes royalties as a recompense for the extra costs and risks oil brings.

The opening sentence of Egypt's new constitution describes the country as the river Nile's gift to Egyptians.

The Constitution describes the nature of American copyright law by providing Congress with the power to "secur[e]" to "[a]uthors" "for limited [t]imes" the "exclusive [r]ight to their..

The preamble to its constitution describes the proposed Cathedral as "a house of prayer…for the use of all people who may resort thereto, especially of the Christian folk dwelling within that portion of the country covered by the spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of New York".

Brazil's constitution describes oil royalties as "compensation" for environmental damage and cutting those royalties means taking away a guarantee on which the environmental licences were based, they argue.Mr Cabral had resigned himself to a new distribution of oil wealth once Brazil's vast pré-sal ("beneath the salt") oil-fields had come into production.

But Brij Lal, another professor at the University of the South Pacific and an author of the 1997 multiracial Constitution, describes Mr. Speight as "a convenient front man for an assortment of interests," including military leaders and ambitious Fijian politicians who would like to run for office under a revised constitution.

Acclaimed political historian Wilentz upends conventional views of the Constitution, describing the document as "a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it" (Harvard University Press, $26.95).

As Reuters reported, thousands of Tunisian women marched in the capital, Tunis, on Monday night to protest a provision in the new Islamist government's draft constitution describing women as "complementary to men".

The constitution described a centralized organization, modeled on the Soviet Communist Party, with power concentrated in a small, elected group and with a descending hierarchy of geographical offices controlled by executive committees directed from above.

WASHINGTON — A federal district judge ruled on Monday that the National Security Agency program that is systematically keeping records of all Americans' phone calls most likely violates the Constitution, describing its technology as "almost Orwellian" and suggesting that James Madison would be "aghast" to learn that the government was encroaching on liberty in such a way.

The Volkskrant daily called the outcome "the reckoning of the common man", adding: "The Dutch were always at the forefront of European Union, but now the good kid in the class is the scene of an anti-European rebellion". Opponents of the EU constitution described the result as a breakthrough for European democracy.