Sentence examples for opened membership from inspiring English sources

In June 1975 he opened membership to all believers, regardless of race.

In July, Chi Phi opened membership to transgender individuals that were "male as defined by valid legal documentation".

He won his reward in October 2005, when the EU opened membership negotiations with Turkey.Unfortunately things have mostly gone downhill since then.

One was sound macroeconomic policy, backed initially by the IMF and later by financial markets; the other was the prospect of joining the European Union, with which Mr Erdogan opened membership negotiations in October 2005.

It's the older members — those who could join only after it opened membership in 2006 to workplace networks, then to anyone — who are adjusting to a new value system that prizes self-expression over reticence.

And all this comes just a year after Mr Erdogan's government triumphantly opened membership talks with the EU .The consequences of a rupture of ties between Washington and Ankara, or more darkly a Turkey that becomes strategically disoriented, would be great," says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His reforms persuaded the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey in 2005.

This was enough to persuade the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey in 2005.

Opposition centred on reports of "Open Membership" in the China mission.

Most countries favour opening membership talks with the six-year-old Balkan country of just over 600,000 people.

In 2004-05 he twice came close to jeopardising Turkey's chances of opening membership negotiations with the EU.