Sentence examples for preparatory commission from inspiring English sources

In 1999 he served as chairman of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization.

He served in 1957 as executive secretary of the preparatory commission planning the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In 1935 the preparatory commission became the Pontifical Commission for the Redaction of the Codex Juris Canonici Orientalis ("Code of Oriental Canon Law").

He achieved prominence when he led the Soviet delegation to the preparatory commission for the League of Nations World Disarmament Conferencee (1927 30) and proposed sweeping disarmament programs.

He led the Mexican delegation to the United Nations preparatory commission (1945) and to the first sessions of the United Nations (1947).

He worked with the preparatory commission that planned the world organization in London in 1945 before joining the secretariat the next year at its first temporary headquarters at Hunter College in Manhattan.

He served on preparatory commissions for the Council of Trent before his death.

Preparatory commissions appointed by the Pope prepared an agenda and produced drafts (schemata) of decrees on various topics.

The work of the preparatory commissions had been done by members of the Curia (the papal bureaucracy); once the council had been opened, however, council fathers from diverse parts of the world were added to the commissions.

In Denmark, a society-centered and bottom-up perspective is the predominant, which sees (pre)existing cultural homogeneity as indispensable for the welfare state and maintains a 'populist' view of political sovereignty, where politicians should respond to, and respect the people, and where legislation to a lesser extent reflects preparatory commissions and expert advice (Jensen, 2014).

In 1960 Congar's exile ended when Pope John XXIII invited him to serve on the preparatory theological commission of the Second Vatican Council, commonly called Vatican II.