Sentence examples for as a confederation from inspiring English sources

Can Iraq survive as a state, even as a confederation?

Third, the NEA may be viewed as a confederation of affiliated local and state education associations.

The German Reich, founded in 1871, began as a confederation of sovereign states.

So the chances for Mr Annan's plan to reunify the island as a confederation of two republics looked good.

Stratfor, the intelligence-analysis firm, predicted last week that Iraq "will largely behave as a confederation over time".

It traditionally operated as a confederation of so-called sections organized along specialties like chemistry or anthropology.

The European Union (EU) is a supranational organization that, while resisting strict classification as either a confederation or a federation, has both confederal and federal aspects.

Cirta received a Roman settlement during the reign of Julius Caesar and later served as head of a confederation of four Roman colonies on the North African coast.

The aim of the intercommunal talks is not to reunite Cyprus "under a confederation" as your article states.

There was considerable disagreement about whether Yugoslavia should function as a federation or a confederation.

Lustick might have advanced the idea of a confederation, not as an afterthought but as the culmination of the two-state approach.