Sentence examples for Asian commonwealth from inspiring English sources

And, although decolonisation after the second world war led to calls for a kind of Asian commonwealth, post-war fraternity soon crumbled, as cold-war fault-lines hardened.

Wrestler Sushil Kumar is a former World Champion besides winning Asian and Commonwealth Games gold.

The Asian nation has been a member of the Commonwealth since 1984.

We dont 'owe' any of these EU countries or Asian countries or even Commonwealth ones a fast track through the migration system, and everyone should treated equally no matter what their origin is.

The figures also show that long-term immigration of new Commonwealth citizens, mainly from the Asian subcontinent, hit a record level of 170,000 – two-thirds of them students – over the same period.

Most articles published during this first wave of "New Commonwealth" immigration focused on the new Asian communities, though often casually likening them to indigenous "problem families".

I have trooped through the House of Commons division lobbies in support of a bill which I knew to be morally indefensible – the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1968 which denied Asians from east Africa entry into Britain.

As America's great commonwealth out here on the Pacific Rim, California encompasses the Asian and Pacific Island influences to our west and the Latin American influences to our south.

For most multinationals, Asian-based or not, it's time to take the commonwealth seriously.

An interview in which she said whites in Britain felt "swamped by immigrants," combined with a bi-paritsan move to limit immigrants from former British Commonwealth countries in Asia and Africa incensed both groups, and sparked a new militancy among Asians in Britain, who aligned themselves closer to black immigrants.

Last night UKIP's commonwealth spokesman Winston McKenzie got into a heated debate with DJ Nihal from the BBC's Asian Network.