Sentence examples for constitutional development from inspiring English sources

But he said he thought China's leaders were dedicated to Hong Kong's constitutional development and stability.

Constitutional development and election supervision are areas where the U.N. has built-in legitimacy and experience.

Subsequently, in response to the worldwide movement for decolonization, the Solomons set out on the path of constitutional development.

In its constitutional development the Cape Colony followed the pattern set by Britain's other settler colonies in the 19th century.

This so-called Loris-Melikov Constitution, if implemented, might possibly have become the germ of constitutional development in Russia.

The cities of Ionia were pioneers of Greek civic (and probably constitutional) development in the 8th and 7th centuries.

Alexander I offered to recognize constitutional developments in Finland and to give it autonomy as a grand duchy under his throne.

WASHINGTON — In a new pro-defendant twist on federalism, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state courts are free to give criminal defendants the benefit of new constitutional developments, even when federal courts would be foreclosed from doing so.

But all are watching the constitutional developments in Britain, as are activists in other regions across the continent, where the pressure placed on public treasuries by the financial crisis has tended to inflame old grievances.

Leave it to a German intellectual to discern a deep connection between an American president dissembling about oral sex with an intern in the Oval Office and a doctoral student at Bayreuth University cribbing passages in a 475-page dissertation about contrasting constitutional developments.

The factors cited most frequently by the interviewees were a reduction in federal expenditure, an increasing use of competitions and some broader constitutional developments.