Sentence examples for declarations for the first from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of farmers who have parked their tractors across highways to protest against having to file tax declarations for the first time are being threatened with prosecution.

Here, the mayor made an emergency declaration for the first time since the city's last blizzard, two years ago.

After the United States was attacked on 11 September 2001, Nato invoked Article 5, its mutual defense declaration, for the first time.

But, while the Ad Hoc Committee has met regularly each year, and while its membership had expanded to 47 states by 1983, the objectives of the original peace zone concept seem as remote as ever. 2 See, for example, Political Declaration of the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Countries, Harare, 1-6 sectioner 1986, section XXI, paras 194-7.

The commission's chief executive, Peter Wardle, said the parties had complied well with new legislation - brought in amid cash-for-honours allegations earlier this year - requiring the declaration of loans for the first time.

JERUSALEM — In grainy black-and-white film, David Ben-Gurion, a founding father of modern Israel and its first prime minister, is reading out the new state's Declaration of Independence for the first time in May 1948.

But it did not ring on July 2 , 1776 when the motion for independence was passed by the Continental Congress in the hall four floors below, nor did it ring when Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was finally approved and adopted on July 4. It was not until July 8 when it was rung to summon the people to hear the Declaration read aloud for the first time.

While I was not present in Iraq for the second declaration, I was for the first, then in command of the first U.S. Army Civil Affairs battalion to deploy in support of "OIF," witnessing what my Norwegian Army friend called "the tragedy on the ground".

Amid bitter political fighting, they sign a partial declaration instead under which for the first time the biggest developed and developing countries agree to emissions curbs.

On July 9, 1776, upon hearing the Declaration of Independence read for the first time, a mob of American colonists descended upon a statue of King George III in Bowling Green park in Lower Manhattan, tied ropes around the sculpture and pulled it to the ground.

The first celebration took place in Philadelphia on July 8th when the Declaration was read publicly for the first time.