Sentence examples for continued commonwealth from inspiring English sources

Governor García Padilla's Popular Democratic Party stands for continued Commonwealth status while the New Progressive Party of former Governor Rossello stands for statehood.

Speaking on Sky News on Thursday, Abbott insisted the commonwealth had "no plans" to change the goods and services tax – continuing the commonwealth's strategy of forcing the states to raise the GST, or other tax increases, in order to solve the looming crisis in schools and hospital funding.

Faced with severe financial pressures and an increasing reliance upon Commonwealth transfer payments, after some resistance the states consented, although vertical fiscal imbalance between the states and the Commonwealth continued to be an enduring feature of Australian federal relations.

Queensland education minister Kate Jones called the proposal to give states carriage of public schools while the commonwealth continued funding other schools "deliberately divisive".

Legal reviews in the courts, both insular and federal, continued to enforce the commonwealth concept.

In the United States, commonwealth has continued to be the official description of four states (Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia).

"Or did it continue in the commonwealth of Virginia?

This unique arrangement continued following the advent of Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences in 1944.

The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, said the state "will continue to press the commonwealth government to fully fund the Gonski agreement".

But the commonwealth's argument, it continued, "is a political one, not a legal one".

Despite the opposition of the Cromwellian Protectorate to the Church of England, Fell continued to hold services throughout the Commonwealth.