Sentences with phrase «to sign the treaty»

Instead, you've signed a treaty with a continental governance structure.

But if a country didn't sign a treaty it is not bound to it; it's more or less voluntary.

More than 40 other countries have passed laws or signed treaties banning human genetic modifications that can be inherited.

Maybe not signing this treaty will be used as leverage against us one day down the line.

Although the United States signed the treaty in 1999, implementation of the system in the U.S. has taken over 15 years.

Afghanistan remained a British protectorate until 1919 at which time the king of Afghanistan, Amanullah, declared his country's independence by signing a treaty with Lenin and declaring war on Britain.

Britain and France have signed treaties agreeing to pool their military capabilities in a bid to cling on to their global defence status.

In 1670 Spain and England signed a treaty of «Uti Posseditis» (as you possess it) allowing the English to remain in the areas they had already settled.

In 2007 the European Community signed a treaty on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

You might point out that when presidents sign treaties, they use a different pen for each signature and they give the pen to one of the people who helped to make that treaty happen.

Ministers had previously resisted signing the treaty because they believed this right to remain would be exploited by illegal immigrants.

this would be a clear sign that the Non-Proliferation Treaty means nothing and that could give ideas to other countries who signed the treaty

While the United States signed the treaty that November, the Clinton administration did not submit it to the Senate for ratification.

This means that by signing a treaty which accepts the current program, the international community is conceivably weakening future non-proliferation efforts.

The PM asked: «Doesn't he understand that what has happened over the last decade, where a Labour government signed treaty after treaty, gave away power after power, and never consulted the British people, is what has made this such a big problem in the first place?»

At the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992, 41 nations and the European Community signed a treaty pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 1966, the two countries signed a treaty that said they would explore hydropower resources in a shared section of the Paraná River (located on the border).

The Muslim conquerors signed treaties guaranteeing to the conquered people the freedom to practice their religion as long as they paid the required tribute to the caliph's treasury

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

In April 1884, Bolivia signed a treaty ending the War of the Pacific, granting Chile 240 miles of coastline — and Bolivia's only outlet to the sea.

Mattis» letter also suggested signing the treaty could have an impact on the country's ties to NATO, of which it is a Gold Card program member, meaning it has some privileges within the defense alliance even though it is not a full member.

[77] The Rashidun caliph Umar ibn al - Khattab signed a treaty with Monophysite Christian Patriarch Sophronius, assuring him that Jerusalem's Christian holy places and population would be protected under Muslim rule.

Seventy - eight nations have now signed the treaty, indicating their intention to join it.

At Lhasa, where he met the Dalai Lama's Regent, he successfully signed a treaty, but his work was repudiated by the politicians.

«However, he will attend some of the lunch with other leaders and he will sign the treaty while he is there.

In 1955 Austria signed a treaty with the Allies, which - in essence - ended Allied occupation in return for a declaration of perpetual neutrality.

But wait, Article II section 2 says the President can sign treaties only with the «advice and consent» of the Congress:

When Argentina signed a treaty with the US guaranteeing «full protection and security» to investors it thought it was talking about physical security.

The details vary from country to country but essentially what happens is that the executive signs the treaty, which says, «I agree that our country should do this, but I need to check with the folks back home.»

President Clinton signed the treaty in 1996, but Congress refused to ratify it.

In 1944, for instance, Congress signed a treaty promising an additional 1.5 million acre - feet to Mexico, where the Colorado River naturally ends.

The project's progress depends on all three parties signing a treaty, but Bromberg wonders whether the Israeli government is prepared to enter a treaty with the Palestinian Authority.

Last week Clinton pledged that the US will now set specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sign the treaty aimed at conserving the world's plants and animals — the Biodiversity Convention.

In 1851, the Dakota signed a treaty that ceded 24 million acres of land (a third of the state of Minnesota) for three cents an acre.

The White House has also signaled recently that it would be willing to sign a treaty containing binding restrictions on greenhouse gases — if China signs on as well.

* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 %.

Sure it will sign treaties like the Paris Accord if it keeps the dumb gweilo happy.

This Earth Day, John Kerry signed the treaty [sic], the first time in history the US has officially begun thinking, and therefore acting, in concert with the rest of the world on climate change.

• And they're more likely to support the U.S. signing a treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions, even if it raises their energy bills.

... the US Senate voted 95 - 0 against signing any treaty that would «cause severe economic damage to the US», while exempting the rest of the world.

First off, these cuts are only for the U.S. which is only responsible for 17 % of CO2 emissions annually on the other hand Obama signed a treaty with China, the world's largest emitter of CO2, allowing them to skate and emit as much CO2 as they want for the next 30 years.

Japan, Russia, and many European nations signed the treaty; the United States did not.

Bush signs the treaty, which, in the eyes of critics, has been watered down to meet U.S. demands; it features voluntary goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, not firm limits.

Britain and France have signed treaties agreeing to pool their military capabilities, as they bid to cling on to their major global defence player status despite constrained budgets.