Sentence examples for draft charter for from inspiring English sources

To that end, the National Council for Building a Better Fiji continued to work on the People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress and by August was circulating a draft charter for public comment.

New draft charter for budget responsibility.

More recently, in 1993, sixty-five per cent of Staten Island voters approved a draft charter for an independent City of Staten Island.

A draft charter for event organisers is due to be discussed by the authority's cycling liaison group on 29 April.

In late December, a court in Beijing sentenced the pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison, an especially tough punishment, for helping to draft Charter 08, a petition calling for democratic reforms that circulated on the Internet.

NB: I have also been taken to task for describing the draft charter drawn up by the three party leaders as "parliament's" charter.

A draft charter agreed at an EU summit in June 2004 for ratification by individual member states - either by parliament or referendum - but was dealt a severe blow in when it was spurned by French and Dutch voters.

Mr. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison for inciting subversion of the state for his essays and a manifesto he helped draft, Charter 08, which demands political reform, human rights guarantees and an independent judicial system.

Mr. Liu, 54, a veteran pro-democracy advocate, is serving an 11-year sentence for his essays and a manifesto he helped draft, Charter 08, that demands political reform, human rights guarantees and an independent judicial system.

The clause, which was included in a draft charter rejected by voters in February, allows the government to take white-owned land without paying for it.

He invited opposition and youth leaders to join him for a meeting at his palace at 12 30 p.m. on Saturday to try to hammer out some compromise, suggesting certain elements of the draft charter might be revised.