Sentence examples for general assembly voted from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, the general assembly voted to admit Palestine as a state with observer status.

On Friday the council's general assembly voted to amend the meaning of museum to include institutions with "intangible" assets.

On 29 November 1947, the UN general assembly voted to partition Palestine between native Palestinians and overwhelmingly European Jewish colonists.

This month, the general assembly voted in favour of referring Pyongyang to the ICC to face charges.

Member states represented in the UN general assembly voted by 154 to three, with 23 abstentions, to control a trade worth an estimated £46bn a year.

The United Nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to recognise Palestine as a state, in the face of opposition from Israel and the US.

This general principle was strengthened later on when the United Nations General Assembly voted on 12 December 1960 the 1514 Resolution2 called "Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples" (Rosiere 2010).

Both houses of the General Assembly voted last spring to end capital punishment in future cases.

The General Assembly voted to postpone for two years consideration of a ban on human cloning.

As a result, in 1952 the General Assembly voted to replace both of these commissions with a new Disarmament Commission.

The General Assembly voted on Nov. 19 to approve a draft resolution asking members to abolish the death penalty.