Example sentences of "[art] new constitution [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft of the new constitution outlining the presidential and multiparty system agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform was presented to the High Council of the Republic on April 12 , 1990 , and its contents announced on May 15 , prior to a referendum in late 1990 . |
| 2 | The new constitution said the ruling council represented ‘ the joining of all of us — the army and the patriotic forces for the democracy of our country ’ . |
| 3 | The new constitution proclaimed the Republic of Serbia , dropping the adjective " socialist " . |
| 4 | Economic chaos was only one element in the social turmoil that exploded when the new constitution removed the previously draconian constraints on individual rights . |
| 5 | The new Constitution increased the power of the republican President , making him both head of state and head of government , and abolished the post of Vice-President . |
| 6 | The new Constitution restores the name Republic of Afghanistan , and provides for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 7 | The new Constitution created the post of vice-president , to be elected with the president for a five-year term by a simple majority of votes . |
| 8 | Features of the new Constitution included the expansion of the National Assembly from 99 to 108 members , to be equally divided between Christians and Moslems ( thereby abolishing the existing system based on a 6:5 Christian:Moslem ratio ) . |
| 9 | The new constitution described the FRY as a " sovereign federal state based on the principle of equality of its citizens and its member republics " ; the republics had sovereignty over issues not within the competence of the FRY . |
| 10 | The autumn 1989 session of the National Assembly discussed the proposals for a new Constitution to replace the provisional Constitution of 1968 [ see p. 23232 ] , and President Saddam Hussein announced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , that the draft of a new Constitution had been completed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | The new government 's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982 . |
| 12 | Opposition leader Paruyr Ayrykyan , chair of the National Self-Determination union , called in a television broadcast on April 28 for a new constitution to replace the current one , which he described as invalid because it was inherited from the Armenian Soviet republic . |
| 13 | A new Constitution embodying the change to a multiparty system was approved by referendum in August 1990 [ see p. 37645 ] . |
| 14 | A new Constitution embodying the change was adopted in August 1990 [ see p. 37645 ] . |
| 15 | The dismantling of the Communist system , which had been the immediate priority of the new government elected in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , was followed by the framing of a new constitution regulating the relationship between the federal government and the two constituent republics . |
| 16 | Hitherto the government had stated that its eventual repeal would have to await the writing of a new constitution extending the political franchise to the black majority . |
| 17 | In 1974 a new constitution gave the republics more power . |