Sentence examples for over the permanent from inspiring English sources

The council was expanded to 15 members from 11 in 1965, and China took over the permanent seat of the nationalist Chinese in 1971.

The clause acknowledging PNG domestic law allowed Port Moresby a veto over the permanent residency of any asylum seekers found to be refugees, he said.

The Kurds lobbied the United Nations earlier this year for official recognition of the interim constitution, which gives the Kurds veto powers over the permanent constitution that is to be drafted.

So Blair's concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.

Its employees were presumably like all other residents and commuters on Sept. 11, in dual states of shock and outrage over the permanent scarring of the New York City psyche and skyline.

Many Shiite leaders say it is at that point, when the Shiites will likely hold a majority of the seats in the national assembly, that they would remove the language that grants the Kurds effective veto power over the permanent constitution.

Ms. Rice's career is hardly over; she remains the permanent representative to the United Nations and is considered a likely national security adviser at some point.

With 300 pieces installed in the fourth- and fifth-floor galleries, and spilling over into the permanent collection galleries, it's a very crowded affair.

You're the guy with the funky glasses, over near the Permanent Resident sign.

In the 1991 census, over 99% of the permanent population was white.

When painted over and fired, the permanent marker will usually not show, and lead and paint won't mix.