Sentence examples for signatories of the declaration from inspiring English sources

They demanded that signatories of the declaration inform their patients about it so the patients know what to expect.

Many legal battles in the period leading up to the American Revolution (1775 83) were fought on common-law principles, and half of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were lawyers.

Among other early colonists who got their start in life on the Northern Neck were the brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both signatories of the Declaration of Independence, and their descendant, the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

It was the initiative of a physician and personal friend of the late pope, Wanda Półtawska.The first 3,000 signatories of the declaration thereby announced that they will not violate the Ten Commandments by playing a part in abortion, birth control, in-vitro fertilisation or euthanasia.

The discoverer of a signal should, for the purposes of independent verification, communicate with other signatories of the Declaration before making a public announcement, and should also inform their national authorities.

Around a fifth of its 6,000 students are American, and three of the signatories on the Declaration of Independence – Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, and John Witherspoon – studied or received degrees from St. Andrews.

Of the 37 Jewish signatories to the "Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel," only one was born in Palestine, the Moroccan Behor Chetrit.

When Andros was arrested in April 1689 in a bloodless uprising inspired by the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England, Stoughton was one of the signatories to the declaration of the revolt's ringleaders.

It is not generally known that out of the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence in 1776 there were 17 of Welsh descent including the man who wrote it, Thomas Jefferson.

The list of signatories to the declaration also includes two former editors – Will Hutton of the Observer and David Yelland of the Sun – and several journalists, including John Pilger, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown of the Independent, and two Guardian journalists, Nick Davies and Polly Toynbee.

She was a direct descendent of Philip Livingston a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and Robert Livingston who arranged the Louisiana Purchase.