A charter of children's rights drafted by Jebb, known as the Geneva Declaration (1923), was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and later became the basis of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which has been ratified by almost all countries.
When the lawyer claimed that the commandments were the basis of the Declaration of Independence, Scalia called the argument "idiotic".
On the basis of this declaration, on the basis of the evidence before us, our path for the coming weeks is clear.
Oil production in Yasuní should take place only upon application by the president, and only on the basis of a declaration of national interest by the national assembly.
We live in a modern European country, yet we have a law that divides people up into types and categories and says that the basis of the declaration on human rights is a crime.
On the basis of this Declaration, a Joint River Commission JRCC) was formed in 1972.
"The annual report was drawn up in good faith on the basis of the declaration by this outside bank," Messier said.
Sincerity may sometimes matter in the context of public deliberation (e.g., in order to be able to predict the likelihood of future courses of action on the basis of present declarations by politicians), but certainly not for exactly the same reasons and to the same extent as it does in private relationships.
In the chemical weapons area, the basis of the current declaration is a declaration submitted by Iraq in 1996 with subsequent updates and explanations.
The Bush administration's assertion that it has the right to strip anyone it chooses of constitutional rights and imprison a person for as long as it sees fit, simply on the basis of a presidential declaration that that individual is an "enemy combatant," strikes at the heart of American liberty.
