8 sentences with 'charter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word charter and other words derived from it.
• « A few weeks later, they donated another 75,000 to charter a plane to fly medical supplies to Cambodia. »
• « In 1215, a much less competent king named John I signed the Magna Carta ("great charter") with the English nobility that formally recognised the feudal privileges of the nobility, towns and clergy. »
• « In 1158 a princely charter was granted to the law students of Bologna in northern Italy, making it the first recognised university. »
• « The only option, he explained, was to charter a private plane, which would cost $10,000. The parents did not hesitate: they asked him to charter the plane and bring the Americans. »
• « Charles II hoped to establish English control of the area between Virginia and Spanish Florida. To that end, he issued a royal charter in 1663 to eight loyal and trusted supporters, each of whom was to be a feudal-style proprietor of a region of the province of Carolina. »
• « George II, realising the strategic advantage of a British colony as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, granted the charter to Oglethorpe and twenty like-minded landowners in 1732. »
• « Connecticut, for example, used its colonial charter to assert its claim to western lands in Pennsylvania and the Ohio Territory. »