Sentence examples for commonwealth- from inspiring English sources

It remains, in some form, on the statute books in 42 Commonwealth, or former Commonwealth, countries, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

That could have caused major problems for the commonwealth, but it didn't do that," she said.

"The court held that, in their operation with respect to the challenged funding agreement and the challenged payments made under that agreement, none of the challenged provisions is a valid law of the commonwealth," the high court said in a judgment summary.

But after discovering a number of commonwealth laws may have been breached, the investigation has been handed over to the Australian federal police.

It could only be used in dealing with commonwealth terrorism offences with a maximum penalty of at least seven years in jail.

We believe it is illegal for the commonwealth to wash its hands of its responsibilities".

The 20-year-old athlete, his country's leading 100m sprinter, disappeared at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last August.

He showed talent and commitment and had become his country's top sprinter by the time he travelled to the Commonwealth Games.

The report has been produced by the Commonwealth Fund, a Washington-based foundation which is respected around the world for its analysis of the performance of different countries' health systems.

Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.

These events – G20, Commonwealth Games, Expo 88 – are too often used as excuses for cultural events to be gathered around them.