How to Use treaty in a Sentence
treaty
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The treaty had been a work in progress for nearly 20 years.
—Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
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This treaty makes Africa, for the very first time, united on one front.
—Denise (ajayi) Williams, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
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The treaty was signed in Washington D.C., in April 1949.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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The case turns in part on a clause that’s found in no other treaty in Canada.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
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In April 1621, both had signed a treaty pledging to come to the aid of the other in case of attack.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
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Such a cap has long been in place for chinook salmon, a species that is the subject of a U.S.-Canada treaty.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
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That treaty was signed in the early 1990s during the fall of the Soviet Union.
—Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 6 May 2022
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Its mutual defense treaty with the U.S. would remain in force for the rest of the decade.
—Gary Schmitt and Michael Mazza, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
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What to know Why do Russia and the United States have an arms-control treaty?
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
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The 1835 treaty, like all such treaties ratified by the Senate, is part of the binding law of the United States.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
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Otherwise, the treaty is not worth the paper it is printed on.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Nations signed on to the treaty out of a strong belief that there were no other options.
—Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025
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The next seven years of war and treaty established in fact what was declared in law.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 4 July 2022
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There is no treaty committing the United States to come to Iraq’s defense.
—Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
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The United States is a signatory to the treaty, but not a party.
—CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
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Some reforms will be discussed, even if no treaty is signed.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
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And just to be able to finally ratify that treaty and be able to say, this is our home.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
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The front pages of the broadsheets were filled with dense stories about the peace treaty process and congressional bills.
—Time, 16 Sep. 2022
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The weapons are banned by treaty by more than 100 nations, but not by Russia, Ukraine or the United States, and both sides in the war have used them.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 12 July 2023
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Egypt and Israel fought four wars before signing a peace treaty in 1979.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
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The treaty commits the U.S. to selling at least three and as many as five Virginia submarines to Australia.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
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Per the treaty, those crimes are not subject to any statute of limitations.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2024
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This was the first treaty between Native Americans and those coming to the New World.
—WSJ, 29 Nov. 2021
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The country doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
—Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2022
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Such a treaty would require 67 votes for approval in the U.S. Senate, which might seem like a tall order.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
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As part of the treaty, the Kohinoor was ceded to Queen Victoria.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Sep. 2022
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There was going to be a treaty to deal with climate change, and every nation was going to step up to the plate.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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The British government maintains the treaty was legal, even if it was signed by a child under duress.
—Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
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As a result, the countries have yet to sign a peace treaty to officially end the war between them.
—New York Times, 8 July 2022
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The treaty allowed for duty-free imports of Hawaiian sugar and other agricultural products into the U.S.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
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