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Example sentences for: treaties
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The problem with this, the column points out, is that native Hawaiians, unlike Native Americans, don't have their own system of governance, don't live on recognized reservations, and don't have treaties with the government.
A short time later, similar treaties were signed with Britain and Russia.
The newly created League of Nations debated, but failed to pass, treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners and attacks on civilians.
Retaliation came a year later in the first of the Opium Wars, which culminated in a series of “unequal treaties” forced on an increasingly weak Manchu regime.
Only after World War II did the United Nations oversee the creation of the Geneva Conventions (1949) and the Genocide Convention (1948)--treaties ratified by nearly every country in the world.
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