treaty
Example Sentences
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Unlike much of Canada, British Columbia doesn’t have treaties with most of the indigenous groups on its territory.
“Conquering the North” is a sprawling book about wars, treaties, empires and ethnic conflict along China’s northern borderlands.
However he has had rows with the US in the past, criticising their decision to leave an earlier climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, when he was head of the IPCC.
From BBC
Other plots involve bandits, guns and an Indigenous tribe, the Cayuse, about to sign a treaty and a rebel faction out to scotch it.
From Los Angeles Times
The removals were dubious from a legal standpoint, subverting due process and legal proceedings linked to extradition treaties signed by Mexico, say lawyers, security analysts and former officials.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.