Sentence examples for declared on the ground from inspiring English sources

In some cases, the winners declared by the agency were not the same as those declared on the ground in vote-counting centers.

Palestinians might actually declare statehood on the ground.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Michigan, seeks to have a major section of the law, the U.S.A. Patriot Act, declared unconstitutional on the grounds that it violates the privacy, due process and free speech rights of Americans.

Some consideration was given to having it declared invalid on the grounds that it was unconstitutional as well as a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, but in the end the government agreed to allow the referendum to go forward, probably in the hope that it would be roundly defeated and thereby become a symbol of Swiss open-mindedness.

In the U.S., local anti-busking laws have frequently been declared unconstitutional on the grounds of free speech, so most public property is fair game.

I think of Abbie Hoffman, who once declared, "The ground you are standing on is a liberated zone.

A special three-judge Federal District Court in Philadelphia blocked the law from taking effect, declaring it unconstitutional on the ground that it induced libraries to violate the First Amendment.

Yet some Palestinian critics declared their opposition on the grounds that recognition of a state they dismiss as a "bantustan" territory, (a nominally independent tribal area in apartheid-era South Africa) would reinforce rather than end Israel's occupation of the whole of Palestine, not just the areas it conquered in the 1967 war.

On April 2nd he declared Mr Skuratov "suspended", on the ground that the prosecutor was himself the subject of a criminal investigation (apparently related to his appearance in a video leaked to Russian television, which seemed to show him engaged with two naked women in some distinctly non-legal manoeuvres).

He declared on Monday that Americans despised the British use of "general warrants," those not grounded in some particular offense.

In Lochner v. New York (1905), the Court declared the state law unconstitutional, on the ground that it interfered with the "right of contract" of both the employer and the employee.