Sentence examples for under the interim constitution from inspiring English sources

Kurdish leaders immediately warned President Bush in a letter that they would not participate in a new Shiite-controlled government unless they were assured that their rights under the interim constitution were preserved.

Under present plans, the interim constitution and the Scotland Act would be amendable by an ordinary majority in parliament.

Under the language of the interim constitution currently in force, the National Assembly is required to dissolve itself if it does not complete a new constitution by the deadline, unless it amends the constitution.

Instead, the interim constitution was written under tremendous time pressure, in small, secretive committee meetings during all-night negotiating sessions inside the Green Zone, the impenetrable fortified area in the center of Baghdad.

The south currently operates under an interim constitution, established after an American-backed peace treaty brought the civil war to an end in 2005, but the interim constitution has to be rewritten and streamlined to accommodate a fully sovereign state.

The interim constitution is supposed to include a bill of rights, details of a federalist governing structure for Iraq, a mechanism for judicial review and a timetable for the drafting of a permanent constitution and elections under that constitution.

The Kurds are worried that without the protections in the interim constitution, they might lose the broad autonomy they have garnered since 1991 under American military protection.

In 1971 a new Egyptian constitution was adopted by referendum to replace the interim constitution of 1964.

The interim constitution is a real achievement — the only one the Governing Council can claim.

The interim constitution expires next year, and with it the constraints and obligations of the peace agreement.

Some say the Constituent Assembly can simply amend and extend the interim Constitution.