Sentence examples for autonomous states from inspiring English sources

Formed by men deeply suspicious of any centralized power, the Articles of Confederation were meant to be a loose association of 13 autonomous states.

As a dissertation topic, he chose uti possedetis, a principle in international law maintaining that newly autonomous states should have the same borders as they had before independence.

Russia was obliged to surrender Bessarabia (situated at the mouth of the Danube River) to Moldavia, which along with Walachia were reorganized as autonomous states under Ottoman suzerainty.

Prior to 1930 the federal government had been in effect a federation of autonomous states, dominated by rural landholders and financed largely by the proceeds of agricultural exports.

He had proposed signing a new treaty that would turn the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into a looser federation of autonomous states, most of which intended to turn their backs on socialism.

Under the disintegration plan, St. Maarten and Curaçao would become autonomous states within the Dutch kingdom, while St. Eustatius and Saba would revert to the status of kingdom municipalities.

On 9 August 1960, Kalonji, still in Katanga, declared the region of south-eastern Kasai to be the new Mining State of South Kasai (État minière du Sud-Kasaï) or Autonomous State of South Kasai (État autonome du Sud-Kasaï).

This is an edible autonomous state.

The islanders were a law unto themselves, it seems, operating as an autonomous state.

Subsequently, disaffected Bodo tribal people (in Assam and Meghalaya) agitated for an autonomous state.

University of Poitiers, French Université De Poitiers, coeducational, autonomous state institution of higher learning in Poitiers, Fr.