Sentence examples for founding rule from inspiring English sources

If the hall were a musician, it could now be inducted into itself, since to ensure historical perspective, its founding rule is that nominees must have started their recording careers a quarter-century earlier.

Clegg will make clear that he shares the prime minister's view that the founding rule of the single market – that no member state should have a veto – should be amended to ensure that the 17 eurozone members cannot force through changes against the will of the countries outside the single currency.

They believe that that Ireland, and others, flouted the founding rules of the euro project.

As the largest country by land mass in Europe, Ukraine has the right under the union's founding rules to be considered for membership.

Without bloodlines or ancient traditions to hold the country together, we have only our founding rules, which take on the infallible aura of holy writ, despite immense confusion about what they actually contain.

"We always knew that a one-size-fits-all would cause problems," said Andre Szasz, a former Dutch central banker and negotiator of the Maastricht Treaty, which in 1993 laid the founding rules of monetary union.

The letter described these statements as "outrageous and dishonest", saying that the IAEA's founding rules stated that inspectors could only be sent to a country with the agreement of the country's government.

After the British left, an elite class of freed slaves who founded Freetown ruled the country in concert with Lebanese settlers.

Long lines of people paid homage at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where Kim Il Sung, who founded and ruled North Korea for four decades until he died at age 82 in 1994, lies in state.

Staring glumly ahead while laborers shoveled soil into the grave, the sons revealed none of the rivalries that have divided them as they jockeyed for pieces of the industrial empire that their father founded and ruled in autocratic style until illness overcame him the last months of his life.

The modern town served as the provincial capital before it was replaced in that capacity by Al-Zaqāzīq, chosen as a more central location shortly after that town's founding during the rule of Muḥammad ʿAlī (1805 48).