Sentence examples for landmark documents from inspiring English sources
The Rare Books Room at the Los Angeles Public Library contains plenty of landmark documents from the city's history: an 1835 decree from the Mexican government giving L.A. urban status; a copy of the very first printed description of California.
Somehow, it is hard to believe that the exclusion of such a resonant individual entitlement as the right to vote from two such landmark documents can be entirely accidental.
In fact, a generation ago, Bernardin was viewed as the quintessential American churchman – a longtime president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and then its resident wise man, coaxing the hierarchy into approving landmark documents on war and poverty that shaped the public debate on faith in America.
Does knowing that Thomas Jefferson had severe headaches enhance our understanding of the landmark document he produced?
She added: "It is a landmark document which sets out the economic, social and democratic case for independence.
Constitution of the United States of America, the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world.
It was his determination, his obsession, that ensured Shoah became a landmark document of one of the darkest chapters in human history.
It was seen as a landmark document because, for the first time, it emphasised the centrality of women's empowerment in tackling population growth and development.
In the Roman Catholic world, a common anti-Judaism was ended by a landmark document on non-Christian religions adopted by the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
He also quoted from "Nostra Aetate," a landmark document on interfaith relations from the Second Vatican Council, saying that the church "deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone".
As pontiff he is credited with starting the process that led to Nostra Aetate, a landmark document which renounced Christian anti-Semitism and the idea that Jews bore any collective responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ.
