Sentence examples for rights concession from inspiring English sources

In exchange for Randolph's canceling the march, Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Committee, the first major federal civil rights concession since Reconstruction.

Amnesty International said in a report this month that despite human rights concessions, little had changed in practice in China.

One of their slogans was "stop the sell‐ out," meaning the Government's civil rights concessions to the Catholic minority.

Further negotiations were set for Friday, as the league tries to win rights concessions from the Olympics in exchange for sending its players to Sochi.

When McGuinness joined, the IRA was being re-armed in response to attacks on Catholic areas by Protestants angry at civil rights concessions.

Amounts which in the judgment of the Reparation Commission should be credited to Germany on account of any other transfers under the present Treaty of property, rights, concessions or other interests.

Televised confrontations between nonviolent protesters and vicious policemen with clubs and police dogs attracted Northern support and resulted in federal intervention to bring about a settlement that included civil rights concessions.

In 1969, when protestant gangs began firebombing Catholic streets in retaliation against civil rights concessions by the Unionist government, only six IRA guns could be found to defend the burning homes.

With the announcement on Wednesday that it has extracted labor rights concessions from Colombia to advance a trade deal, the Obama administration is now two-thirds of the way toward meeting Republican demands that three languishing trade agreements be sent to Congress for approval.

In September, fed up with Bahrain's backtracking on the imprisonment of dissidents and refusal to engage with peaceful opposition parties, the Obama administration conditioned a $3 billion sale of 19 F-16 warplanes to the country on a private list of human rights concessions.

The killings were described recently by senior Western diplomats as a crude attempt by the government to win a free hand to deal harshly with Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority, which had won major civil rights concessions from the government after a 2001 conflict.