Sentence examples for commonwealth links from inspiring English sources
Some 80 prominent figures and business leaders with Commonwealth links have backed the Vote Leave campaign in an open letter to David Cameron.
One is that Britain joined not out of great enthusiasm but more because the alternatives a free-trade area, the Commonwealth, links to America or the delightful acronym GITA (going it alone)—were less palatable still.
They are a individualistic bunch, have Commonwealth links and a native language that often makes it easy to integrate.Kiwi seedsNew Zealand offers a good model for Britain's hands-off diplomats to emulate.
The Russians were seen as forming part of a commonwealth, which linked the various parts of the Orthodox Christian world with its common centres of pilgrimage in the monastic republic of Mount Athos (forming one of the three fingers of the Chalcidice Peninsula and Jerusalemm.
In 1993, the Commonwealth government linked its financial commitment to children's services to a quality assurance system called the Quality Improvement and Accreditation System (QIAS) for LDC centres to improve the quality of provision in Australia.
He said: "Does anyone left or right genuinely support an immigration system where we turn away the best and brightest from our Commonwealth, people with links and family here in order to make room for unskilled immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
Brexit supporters told voters with links to Commonwealth countries that leaving the EU would allow an immigration system that was fairer towards people from their countries.
He said Britain should concentrate on forging stronger links with Commonwealth countries and could learn from countries like Norway or Switzerland, who he said flourished outside the EU.
The second argument Brexiteers like to use is ethical, claiming that Britain has an obligation to forge new trade links with Commonwealth nations because it "abandoned" them when it turned to a protectionist Europe in the 1970s and, accordingly, had to cut off all Commonwealth trade deals it had outside the European Economic Community.
He wanted an independent South Africa closely linked with the Commonwealth; they wanted an independent republic outside the Commonwealth.
The response could disappoint those of Indian origin in the UK and those with links to other Commonwealth countries, after Brexit campaigners suggested they would benefit from an immigration system that no longer discriminated in favour of Europeans.
