(n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
(n.) Story; discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(2) It is not a theological treatise.” Furthermore, the writer meant that as praise.
(3) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(4) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
(6) He studied Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places, which deals with environmental factors, and the treatise On Regimen especially thoroughly.
(7) During his stay in Berlin for many years Bilguer wrote a number of treatises, in which he expressed his opinion to many medical scientific problems and again to questions of an improved treatment of patients.
(8) Described in an excellent clinical treatise some 8 decades before the advent of radiographs, this fracture of the distal radius continues to pose a source of some disability to large numbers of patients.
(9) The writer Jon Savage is the author of the punk rock history England's Dreaming, and the epic cultural treatise Teenage, recently turned into a feature-length documentary .
(10) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(11) In 1627, William Harvey was writing notes for a treatise on the movement of animals, De motu locali animalium, which in the event he neither published nor completed.
(12) Resuming his treatise the author confirms that not yet all sources are used to solve the problems regarded.
(13) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(14) In this part of the treatise is accentuated above all the situation of the forties of our century, in which the processes of academic graduation more than ever before could become a political fact.
(15) The third part of a treatise concerning a viatorium medico-historicum which deals with the region of Saxony-Anhalt leads through the areas of the Harz mountains and their piedmont.
(16) 20, 934-940] pathway for the formation of triacylglycerols when compared with other oil-rich plant species that have been studied [Stymne & Stobart (1987) The Biochemistry of Plants: a Comprehensive Treatise (Stumpf, P.K., ed.
(17) Friedrich Arnold's neuroanatomical treatise Icones nervorum capitis published in its first edition in Heidelberg 1834 ranks scientifically and iconographically among the most brilliant works of 19th century anatomical literature.
(18) Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed.
(19) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(20) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.
Treaty
Definition:
(n.) The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.
(n.) An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.
(n.) A proposal tending to an agreement.
(n.) A treatise; a tract.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(4) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(8) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(9) I said I did not want a treaty change in the first place and that I had always said it would be a divisive process.
(10) It’s called freedom.” 4.25pm GMT Nato has released a statement of solidarity following its meeting called by Poland under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty providing for mutual consultation and support.
(11) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
(12) Amnesty International supports the development of a treaty on business and human rights because we believe states must fulfil their duty to protect people against all human rights abuses, including those caused by corporate abuse and negligence.
(13) Frances' highest administrative court ruled that the French government exceeded its authority in ordering the distribution of RU 497 (mifepristone), but ruled that French abortion law, allowing abortions in the 1st 10 weeks in "situations of distress," did not violate international treaties guaranteeing the "right to life."
(14) Above all, none of the other 28 EU members need to make any move on the treaty changes for which Osborne claimed to have support in his speech.
(15) Has recently sounded pessimistic about the prospects for a full post-Copenhagen treaty: "You should not have too many expectations."
(16) The UK-Colombia bilateral investment treaty is one of thousands criss-crossing the globe but is the first Britain will have ratified since 2009.
(17) A UN spokesman said the UK was the signatory to a number of international treaties that protect the right to adequate housing and non-discrimination.
(18) But Labor senator Patrick Dodson, a former member of the referendum council, disputed the prime minister’s characterisation, calling for a conversation about both a treaty and constitutional recognition .
(19) We aggressively push new uranium deals to countries like India , whose nuclear industry has been called unsafe by its own auditor general , and which point blank refuses to sign the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty .
(20) Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea all sit outside the treaty and all have been able to develop their own nuclear weapons.