How to Use signatory in a Sentence

signatory

noun
  • On the left, the most notable signatory was Gabriel Boric.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Read the full statement and the list of signatories below.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The United States is a signatory to the treaty, but not a party.
    CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Egypt is a signatory to ICAO and is bound by its rules.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The full text of the letter and list of signatories is below.
    Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Russia, Ukraine and the United States are not among the signatories.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Britain is one of more than 120 signatories on a convention that bans the weapons.
    Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Britain is one of 123 signatories to a convention that bans the weapon.
    USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • One of the signatories of the letter was Lisa Carnoy, a former co-chair of Columbia's board of trustees.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • But Russia, Ukraine and the United States are not signatories to the agreement.
    Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The letter, whose signatories were led by North Bay Reps.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • China is a key signatory of the Paris Agreement and has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2060.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Neither Ukraine nor Russia is a signatory to the treaty.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • Pakistan is not a signatory to the U.N. refugee convention and has urged Afghans to return home.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • Disney, which films many of its blockbuster Marvel movies and TV series in the state, was not a signatory.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Elon Musk, one of the most prominent signatories, didn’t wait long to ignore his own call for a slowdown.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Human Rights Watch was not a signatory to the letter calling for the 2022 Games to be taken away from Beijing.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
  • According to the union, the company is not a signatory to its 2023 contract, whose term is three years.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • If Michigan State had been a signatory, the public would have been entitled to see the contract.
    Walt Bogdanich, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Japan, another signatory of the accords, even has a rover in the works with India, with the goal of drilling into the lunar south pole in search of more water.
    Popular Science, 22 Aug. 2023
  • More than 100 countries have joined a treaty that bans such weapons, though neither Ukraine nor Russia is a signatory.
    Taylor Umlauf, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The same is true of the other eight signatories of the complaint letter, and Fauci and Daszak (who are not signatories).
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Noma, whose chef, René Redzepi, was a signatory, had repeatedly been named the best restaurant in the world.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Among the signatories were the chairs of the Aging, Health and Judiciary committees in the Senate.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Last week, Trump renewed his calls for other signatories to follow his lead, ditch the agreement, and begin work on a tougher deal.
    Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Thissen noted Tigue had arranged for another lawyer to be the signatory on client trust funds.
    Randy Furst, Star Tribune, 16 June 2021
  • In short, a hostage taken from one signatory would be considered a hostage taken from all.
    Cathryn J. Prince, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The move has earned the country – which once took pride as the first signatory of the 1951 United Nations refugee convention – a barrage of criticism.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2021
  • And courts around the world in countries that are treaty signatories haven’t imposed any agreement requirement like the one Monasky proposed.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2020
  • This drive has seen improvements in women rights over the last eight years, but the signatories of the letter suggested abuses against women were continuing.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024

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