Sentence examples for third of official from inspiring English sources

Measured against the arc of American history, which includes more than two centuries of slavery and a third of official segregation, the legal, political and social advancements since 1963 are impressive, even astonishing.

The greenback accounts for almost two-thirds of official foreign-exchange reserves identified by the IMF (see right-hand chart).

It took 47 minutes and four seconds of official North Dakota House Judiciary Committee time to decide that underage members of the military shouldn't be allowed to drink alcohol on base, or anywhere else for that matter.

Kenya is in its third day of official mourning for both the civilian and military victims of the siege.

Kenya is in its third day of official mourning for both the civilian and military victims of the attack.

The requirement that one-third of officials be replaced at each election was overturned, as was the division in the Party structure between industrial and agricultural sectors.

Two thirds of officials were male.

In Namibia, a local activist says Chinese businessmen often pay their labour a third of the official rate.

The second period of official relations was between the 1970s and the late 20th century.

It's nearly the end of the fourth day of official competition at the Games in Sochi.

But congressional leaders swore them in Wednesday as the body's first act of official business.