Sentence examples for upgrade the status from inspiring English sources

She and her three predecessors had asked the cabinet and parliament to upgrade the status of the ministry in order to secure a budget.

In Jerusalem on Sunday, the Israeli government unanimously rejected the General Assembly's decision to upgrade the status of Palestine to a nonmember observer state of the United Nations.

You report that Colorado's Legislature is considering a bill to upgrade the status of cats and dogs from "property" to "companions" to allow grieving pet owners to sue for loss of companionship (National Briefing, Feb. 11).

A bill would upgrade the status of cats and dogs from "property" to "companions," a move that sponsors say would allow lawsuits against veterinarians or animal abusers for up to $100,000 for loss of companionship and emotional suffering.

One such example is the Israeli government's decision last year to upgrade the status of a college built in Ariel – a town inside the West Bank – to that of a university.

Soon after the General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinians, the Netanyahu government announced that it would advance plans to settle a particularly contentious area of the West Bank known as E1.

At the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, 138 nations voted in favor of upgrading the status of the Palestinians and 41 abstained.

The Obama administration in September 2016 upgraded the status of the E.U. ambassador to the United States to be on par with that of the head of any bilateral mission.

JERUSALEM — King Abdullah II of Jordan on Thursday became the first head of state to visit the West Bank since last week's vote by the United Nations General Assembly upgraded the status of the Palestinians to nonmember observer state.

Rather, the requirement is to "officially open" an embassy, which can be done with a mere declaration upgrading the status of one of the existing consular facilities in the city.

Ratings agencies recently began upgrading the status of several bonds issued by major state-owned companies like the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, or Dewa, and MB Petroleum, a major supplier of oil field services in Oman.