Sentence examples for equivalent to the declaration from inspiring English sources

We can make this phrase, "(t)here is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders," our 21st century equivalent to the Declaration of Independence.

There was no equivalent to the resolution of the cold warrior Margaret Thatcher, the ethical foreign policy of the early Blair years, the interventionism of the later Blair years or the Brown declaration that "global problems require global solutions".

Officials said more than 20,000 people had signed the Yes Scotland declaration, roughly equivalent to the SNP's membership, and the campaign had attracted more than 4,500 volunteers.

They were equivalent to the Venetian ducat.

This was equivalent to a declaration that after the lapse of the two years the full power of the village might be applied to the extent found necessary.

It had been stated by one of the counsel who were concerned in that case, that the Lord Chancellor was of opinion, that the power of attorney, which was executed by the trustees to the solicitor of the second purchaser, was equivalent to a declaration of trust in his favour.

Morocco, which described the Spanish action to evict the Moroccans on Tuesday as "equivalent to a declaration of war" did not respond publicly to the offer.

'The absence of any law of Congress on the subject is equivalent to its declaration that commerce in that matter shall be free.' Bowman v. Chicago, etc., Railway way Co., 125 U. S. 465, 508, 8 Sup.

Even some US commentators think this could be equivalent to a declaration of war.

There are intellectual precedents to the Declaration.

Mr. Hussein made no reference to the declaration.