Sentence examples for optional clause from inspiring English sources
The declaration (the "optional clause") may be made unconditionally, or it may be made on condition of reciprocity on the part of other states or for a certain time.
At Maastricht in 1991 Mr Major persuaded the other 11 leaders to make it an optional clause in the final version of the treaty, allowing member states to adopt it individually.
The centre-back is not expected to make up his mind until later on in the season, although should he wish to continue he could activate an optional clause in his contract that would keep him at Old Trafford for an additional year.
This consent may be signaled through a special agreement, or compromis (French: "compromise"); through a convention that gives the court jurisdiction over matters that include the dispute in question (e.g., the genocide convention); or through the so-called optional clause, in which a state makes a declaration in advance accepting the ICJ's jurisdiction over matters relating to the dispute.
This withdrawal was based on the optional clause of the Statute of the ICJ and Article 298 (1) of the United National Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and reflected its assessment of the weakness of its own legal position.
A general SPARQL query may contain FILTER, UNION, OPTIONAL clauses.
No sex is attached and there's that spooning-optional clause that you can always fall back on.
Local authorities should be able to introduce optional-use clauses to prevent housing from being bought unless it is going to be lived in.
Note that this is a BGP query, since it contains a set of triples without UNION, OPTIONAL and FILTER clauses.
Whilst circumstantial elements are considered an optional element of the clause, both the process and participant are considered inherent.
Bandstra generally adheres rather closely to Halliday's account of English Mood, focusing on the importance of the Subject and Finite in the realization of mood structure, and he does not explicitly explain how this differs from English Mood except to note that the Subject is an optional element in the clause.
