Sentence examples for convention required from inspiring English sources

The judges also rejected Mr. Hamdi's assertion that the Geneva Convention required the government to convene a tribunal to determine if he was a lawful or unlawful combatant.

That Convention required delegates to take a loyalty pledge: "Every person occupying a seat in this convention is bound in good honor and good faith to abide by the action of this convention, and support its nominee".

Howe, a member of Lawyers for Britain, has been damning about the possibility and told the Standard that the use of the convention required a "radical change of circumstances".

A centuries-old constitutional convention required the son and heir to give up his seat and spend the rest of his life in the House of Lords, but he fought with great stubbornness to stay where he was.

It had strictly followed the international banking rules imposed by the so-called Basel II Convention and, in fact, held $2 billion in excess of the amount of capital that the convention required for the bank to weather a major shock.

Most delegates arrive at a convention required to vote for the candidate who won their state's primary, at least in the first round of balloting.

Every convention requiring another recursively inherits (aggregates) the requirements from that convention.

The convention requires that foreigners detained abroad be told they may contact consular officials.

The Vienna convention requires that countries protect diplomats stationed in their nations.

The convention requires that the International Committee of the Red Cross be allowed to visit prisoners of war.

As currently drafted, the convention requires judges to retire at 70.