Sentence examples for a British dependent from inspiring English sources

In 1967, 12,138 of its inhabitants voted to keep its status as a British dependent territory, against 44 who wanted it to join Spain.

The Caymans, as a British dependent territory, believed Fifa rules would allow them to call up players with a British passport, so long as they hadn't already been capped for another country.

"He didn't mind us calling him that, we certainly respected him," Williams told i yesterday from his home in BVI, a British dependent territory with a population of just 22,000.

Corbyn argued that the government should tell administrations in places like the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands: "Hang on, you are a government of a British dependent territory, a crown territory, you must obey UK tax law, you must not become a harbour for tax avoidance and tax evasion".

As a British dependent territory, Tristan da Cunha and its population of 300 people are under the rule of the Foreign Office which - to the fury of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - gave the green light to the trade.

It was because he had already conducted four previous inquiries two into corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British dependent territory, back in the 1980s; another in Antigua in 1990; and a third in St Lucia last year that he was the obvious candidate for the current job.

Transforming from a British-dependent territory to a local administrative region of the People's Republic of China, which enjoys a high degree of autonomy, the HKSAR government inevitably needs to pay more attention to its own long-term social development.

In the end, Anguilla got part of what it wanted, becoming a self-governing British dependent territory with its own elected officials, an arrangement codified in 1971 and brought up to date with Anguilla's new Constitution in 1982.

I had come to the thirty-nine-and-a-half-square-mile British dependent territory of Montserrat to see the Soufriere Hills volcano, which, on July 18,1995, had waked up from a four-hundred-year nap... Writer accompanies guide George Skerritt to take microgravity measurements..

I had come to the thirty-nine-and-a-half-square-mile British dependent territory of Montserrat to see the Soufriere Hills volcano, which, on July 18,1995, had waked up from a four-hundred-year nap... Writer accompanies guide George Skerritt to take microgravity measurements.

The Bahamas is unusual in being a sovereign offshore centre; most such jurisdictions, such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, remain British dependent territories.