Word: carta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surprise, 65 newly jobless parliamentarians from Marcos' New Society Movement remained unpersuaded, accusing the President of dictatorial tendencies and excoriating the new plan as a "Magna Carta of enslavement." Blas Ople, who had served as Marcos' Labor Minister for 17 years, went so far as to charge, with more than a little hyperbole, that Aquino was claiming authority "more absolute, more authoritarian and more arbitrary than the powers gobbled up by the former President...
...during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American leaders lavished praise on the new global body. The U.N. Charter "can be a greater Magna Carta," intoned John Foster Dulles, a delegate to the San Francisco conference...
...Magna Carta...
...Armoury, a second-story room lined with muskets, swords, pikes and other antique weaponry, the summiteers listened as Thatcher broached her notion of the political communiqué on democratic values. Thatcher felt strongly about the idea. "The Brits are treating this like it's the Magna Carta," said a U.S. official...
...diplomatic opening. From the moment her Royal Air Force VC-10 touched down in Budapest, the Prime Minister sought to find and build on shared moments in history to strengthen the connections between the two countries. At a gala banquet in her honor, she noted that the Magna Carta of 1215 had been an influence on the Golden Bull, a similar document drawn up by a King of Hungary seven years later. She also noted that the bridge across the Danube near the Országház (parliament) was a copy of the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames...