Sentence examples for drafting of the charter from inspiring English sources

The small Hampshire town of Odiham, which claims to be where John stayed before setting out for the negotiations at Runnymede, is getting in on the act with a Magna Carta Festival including a hog roast, morris dancing and a specially-commissioned church anthem with words by John's Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, who played a key role in the drafting of the charter.

Further confusing the picture, the drafting of the charter has bogged down in disagreements over who should be appointed to sit on the drafting committee, while the ruling generals have threatened to issue a kind of temporary, interim constitution, which would give the new president sweeping powers and preserve the extensive privileges of the military.

Your role in the drafting of the Charter of Fundamental Rights should not be underestimated, and this is an issue of relevance to all European citizens.

The draft of the charter suggests the bishops are highly unlikely to do either.

The Tahrir protesters belong to the liberal opposition, which claims the draft of the charter restricts freedoms and gives Islamists vast influence over the running of the country.

The latest draft of the charter will go for endorsement to the Euro-summit in Nice next month and as it stands will not be legally binding.

The move by Islamist parties to ram through the half-baked draft of the charter in a single overnight sitting of the constituent assembly on November 30th was also necessary, they argue.

"A crack has emerged in Egypt; there's a gap, there's blood and deaths, there's extremism," said Ahmed Maher, who helped jump-start the revolution as a leader of the secular April 6 Youth Group and then served as a delegate in the constituent assembly that wrote a draft of the charter.

It said early drafts of the charter had contained "several deeply contentious issues" which had not been "resolved with the industry".

He also uses recently identified drafts of the charter (they were previously thought to be unofficial copies of the final authorised version) to trace the way the text changed during five days of negotiations at Runnymede.

A confidential draft of the charter proposal, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, called for half of district students to enroll in charters over the next eight years.