Sentence examples for a British dependency from inspiring English sources

The island remains a British dependency.

The island is part of a British dependency that includes Ascension Island and Saint Helena, where Napoleon was exiled.

By the early 1980s all the former associated states had achieved independence except Montserrat, which remains a British dependency.

The British settled on the Mosquito Coast, and for a time (1740 86) the region was a British dependency.

Jersey, the largest island in the English Channel, is a British dependency with its own tax system.

Britain insists that Argentina respect the wishes of the Falklands' 3,000 residents to remain a British dependency.

Her unpopularity would have ensured her defeat in the general election of 1983 were it not for two factors: the Falkland Islands War (1982) between Britain and Argentina, over possession of a remote British dependency in the South Atlantic, and the deep divisions within the Labour Party, which contested the election on a radical manifesto that critics dubbed the "longest suicide note in history".

An island alone in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is a self-governing British dependency home to 84,000 people.

Rangers' financial records show that from 2001-10 teamteam routed £48m to 87 players and staff through trust accounts held at a company in the British dependency of Jersey.

The benchmark is a 2002 referendum in Gibraltar, another British dependency, where the vote for retaining the British link or accepting a new status tying the isthmus on which Gibraltar stands to Spain was 98.5 percent.

TRACTOR-DRAWN fire engines, £1 notes and an annual sheep race are some of the quaint attractions of the dinky British dependency of Sark, a Channel Island.