Sentence examples for constitutional articles from inspiring English sources

"The judicial bodies don't approve of the decree, and they don't approve of the draft constitution, and under current constitutional articles, it is impossible to hold a referendum without judicial monitoring," said Ahmed Kamel, a spokesman for Amr Moussa, a former diplomat under Mr. Mubarak who ran for president last year and has emerged as an opposition leader.

In addition to such classic civil rights as freedom of speech, religion, information, and association, the equality of nationalities is guaranteed in a number of constitutional articles.

"I don't know how much is 'needed,' " she said, "but we have constitutional articles that 'allow' us to spend about $2 billion of state funds.

The referendum over the 1874 constitution was won only against the backdrop of the Kulturkampf (German: "cultural struggle"), a Protestant-led movement to limit the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which was further constrained by new constitutional articles.

According to Human Rights Watch, constitutional articles that give the state power to protect "the true nature of the Egyptian family" and "ethics and morals and public order" could be interpreted to limit fundamental rights.

This critique, compressed into 14 constitutional articles, aims to expose the rotten character of a political system that blends the continuation of ancient pre-democratic practices with modern anti-democratic measures designed to maximise the powers of a prime minister through the fusion of the executive and legislative branches of government.

Cubans who ordinarily shy from open criticism of the government spoke out in large numbers against the proposed constitutional Article 68 promoting gay marriage during public consultations on the draft constitution throughout the year.

Its national conservative values, so one constitutional article states, are to inform interpretations of the document as a whole.

Moreover, Gorbachev radically changed Soviet political life when he removed the constitutional article according to which the only legal political organization was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

If he again wins a seat, it is understood that he will be let back into parliament (the constitutional article under which he was convicted was amended last year) and should become prime minister within a week or so.

When Ennahdha drafted a constitutional article ambiguously declaring that Tunisian women should play a "complementary" role to men, the movement was forced to retreat in the face of strong criticism.