Sentence examples for contemporary declarations from inspiring English sources

Even if people are born with God-given natural rights, we need to explain how to get from those general and abstract rights to the specific rights found in contemporary declarations and treaties.

In a society where Constitution worship is still a requisite on right and left alike, Stuntz startlingly suggests that the Bill of Rights is a terrible document with which to start a justice system — much inferior to the exactly contemporary French Declaration of the Rights of Man, which Jefferson, he points out, may have helped shape while his protégé Madison was writing ours.

The filing argues that the authorization for the use of military force passed by Congress after 9/11 — the contemporary equivalent of a declaration of war — gives the president the powers any sovereign would have under the general principles of the international law of war.

In a sense the identity museum is a morality tale about success in the cooled-off melting-pot of contemporary democracy; it is a declaration of political power to outsiders, an affirmation of shared experience to cohorts.

That is a clear declaration of the contemporary church's stance.

The furious, fearful reaction of the narrator's cousins must surely have been felt by plenty of contemporary readers when he makes such declarations as: "There's no hell … and no eternal punishment.

To me, to choose to live in bucolic bliss in Cortona, Italy or in Hillsborough, North Carolina as opposed to say PoMo/Hipster Brooklyn, the epicenter of contemporary American Literature, is a bold declaration of aesthetics.

Mr. Clinton talked about the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and a contemporary issue or two.

Whilst religion or the lack thereof is a private affair, the increasing intervention of and devastation caused by religion and particularly Islam in contemporary society has necessitated our public renunciation and declaration.

And how many contemporary poets would dare, as Walcott does, to write the simple declaration "O Beauty, you are the light of the world!"?

Bells were rung to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8 , 1776 and while there is no contemporary account of the Liberty Bell ringing, most historians believe it was one of the bells rung.