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 -
The case turns in part on a clause that’s found in no other treaty in Canada.
— Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024 -
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 -
That treaty was signed in the early 1990s during the fall of the Soviet Union.
— Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 6 May 2022 -
What to know Why do Russia and the United States have an arms-control treaty?
— Claire Parker, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
Otherwise, the treaty is not worth the paper it is printed on.
— Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023 -
The next seven years of war and treaty established in fact what was declared in law.
— Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 4 July 2022 -
There is no treaty committing the United States to come to Iraq’s defense.
— Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023 -
The United States is a signatory to the treaty, but not a party.
— CNN, 5 Apr. 2022 -
Some reforms will be discussed, even if no treaty is signed.
— Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 22 May 2022 -
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 -
The front pages of the broadsheets were filled with dense stories about the peace treaty process and congressional bills.
— Time, 16 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
Egypt and Israel fought four wars before signing a peace treaty in 1979.
— Abeer Salman, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
Per the treaty, those crimes are not subject to any statute of limitations.
— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
As part of the treaty, the Kohinoor was ceded to Queen Victoria.
— Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Bangladesh has been seeking a treaty to share the waters of Teesta river for several years.
— Abu Siddique, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022 -
Today, a treaty banning land mines has been signed by 164 countries.
— Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Details of the treaty will have to be negotiated over the next couple of years.
— Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2022 -
The Korean War ended in 1953, but without a peace treaty.
— George Petras, USA Today, 15 Nov. 2022 -
The formal end of the Soviet-Finnish conflict came with the signing of a peace treaty in Paris in February 1947.
— Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022 -
The treaty is reviewed at a U.N. conference every five years.
— John Hudson, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022 -
On Saturday, hundreds of people marched in Busan urging nations to agree to a robust plastics treaty.
— Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 -
Had such divisions been overcome, the treaty would have been one of the most significant deals relating to environmental protection since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
— Joyce Lee and Valerie Volcovici, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
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