Sentence examples for confederation and from inspiring English sources

The confederates widely publicized the Roman Catholic Archbishop E. P. Roche's strong opposition to confederation, and persuaded the Loyal Orange Association to advise Protestants to resist Catholic influence.

From 1866 Lübeck belonged to the North German Confederation and from 1871 to the German Empire.

He immediately removed Wessex from the Mercian confederation and consolidated his power as an independent ruler.

The British successfully exploited rivalries among members of the confederation, and it disbanded in 1873.

(March 5, 1798), ensured the demise of the confederation, and he fled to Bavaria.

Salman, from Bahrain, is the president of the Asian Football Confederation and a Fifa executive committee member.

"It was then that the Sascoc [South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee] people and me first talked about Luvo".

"FFA has been in constant contact with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Asian Football Confederation and FIFA.

The Swiss Confederation and the cantons together finance additional support for the destitute out of general revenues.

Then he slashed Israel's inflation rate from 450%to16%6% by forcing the Histadrut labour confederation and big business into a national compact.

Blatter was, however, bolstered by the Asian Football Confederation and the Confederation of African Football, which both said they would back his bid for another term as president.