Sentence examples for signed a concordat from inspiring English sources

RMT and drivers' union Aslef have signed a concordat aimed at stopping it spreading further in any form.

In Italy, Mussolini signed a concordat with the papacy, the Lateran Treaty (1929), which, among other things, made Roman Catholicism the state religion of Italy and mandated the teaching of Catholic doctrine in all public primary and secondary schools.

In 1933 the Vatican, which had previously interdicted Catholic membership in socialist organizations, signed a concordat with Germany that forbade priests to speak out on politics and gave Hitler a say in naming bishops.

In 1933, when Hitler came to power and Pius XII was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's secretary of state, he signed a concordat with Hitler that legitimized him in the world community and stymied many would-be German Catholic resisters.

Earlier this year, 81 organisations signed a Concordat on Openness in Animal Research, committing them to embrace media and public interest in their use of animals in research, and open up their facilities to more journalists.

In 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte ended the Revolution, signed a concordat with the papacy, and "established" the church as a religious agency supported by and subservient to the French state.

Preliminary findings, in 2012, suggested a 45% reduction in mortality and a 20% fall in emergency admissions for telehealth users and prompted Paul Burstow, then minister for care services, to sign a concordat with the telehealth industry and launch a campaign, 3millionlives, with the aim of rolling out telehealth devices to three million people by 2016, to save the NHS an estimated £1.2bn.

In 1989 he signed a similar concordat with his Orthodox brothers, and in 2000 he welcomed Pope John Paul II to Egypt.

But is the private sector a rival, draining resources from the NHS, or is it an ally?The odd thing is, Mr Milburn seemed only a few weeks ago to have renounced Labour's traditional hostility to private medicine when he signed a grandiose "concordat" with the private sector.

Party leader Tony Blair declares that he is against public sector monopoly saying: "What matters is what works". 2000: Labour signs a concordat with the private health industry under which it agrees to send thousands of NHS patients to be treated in independent hospitals.

In 2012, more than 40 biomedical organizations signed a Declaration on Openness on Animal Research; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research councils.