Sentence examples for a small commonwealth from inspiring English sources

It was this reality that led Aristotle (who himself came from just such a small commonwealth, Stageira) to define man as a political animal.

The JCPC, based in Westminster, acts as an ultimate court of appeal for smaller Commonwealth countries, including many in the Caribbean that retain capital punishment.

The privy council remains the final court of appeal for many smaller commonwealth countries.

The president suspended all military exercises on Vieques, a small island in the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in April, when a civilian Puerto Rican guard was killed after Marine jets dropped bombs that unintentionally hit an observation tower.

This may mean more countries withdrawing, but a smaller, more effective Commonwealth is better than one that stays silent simply to keep the club together.

COMMONWEALTH Upon graduating from Columbia's architecture school in 2005, David Boira and Zoë Coombes, the huband-and-wife founders of Commonwealth, set up shop in a small warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with a CNC milling machine.

A woman came by whose mother had planted the rosebushes, who remembered when the summer kitchen, a small outbuilding, was where the best baked beans in the commonwealth were simmered.

Władysław was fed up with the weak position of the king in the Commonwealth; his politics included attempting to secure a small, preferably hereditary territory – like a duchy – where his position would be much stronger.

Most strikingly, video had emerged on the internet of a small group of young men desecrating and destroying Allied war graves in Benghazi's two Commonwealth war cemeteries.

The Commonwealth extended toleration to Protestants, including sectaries, but the only significant group were a small number of Quakers.

Opposite the Airborne Cemetery is a civilian graveyard with a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission plot containing the graves of nine airmen shot down shortly before the battle.