#confer

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #december #decided #england #imperial

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#among #anyone #bill #citizens #civil

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners. ↗

— John Hull

#conferences #contact #derivatives #giving #our

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#far #fist #hard #large #leadership

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#conference #connects #consensus #continue #cosmopolitan

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ↗

— John Lennon

#conferred #cross #distinction #escape #few

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference? ↗

— Chris Martin

#cart #coherent #conference #endangered #endangered species

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue. ↗

— Walter Martin

#backing #book #conference #extrapolate #general