Sentence examples for federal countries from inspiring English sources

Today there is a strong feeling that a decentralised federation needs to reassert itself.Brazil has peculiarities which make it different to other federal countries.

The solution is to push and negotiate a better fiscal arrangement like similar federal countries".

It says the mandatory inspections are too intrusive, and also claims that it would be difficult to operate in federal countries, where prisons are managed at local level.

And the parties sometimes take their heartlands for granted: Labour's neglect of Scotland is one reason the Scottish National Party is thriving.Regional political strongholds are not such a problem in federal countries.

In federal countries such as Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States there were constitutional obstacles to adopting social security that led to the private sector's playing a larger role.

Taking an average of the revenue-sharing formulae used in other big federal countries, it would receive 32%, points out Luis Secco, an economic consultant.Mr Solá's complaints have incensed Mr Kirchner, who thrives on enemies, real or imagined.

The plan had been to forge a Canadian-style federal country from a far-flung archipelago.

In a sprawling, federal country such as Brazil, tinkering with tax is a grave constitutional affair.

As a federal country, Germany has three distinct tiers of administration – federal, state and municipal.

All we want is to be partners of the Arabs of Iraq in building a secular, democratic, federal country".

But America is a federal country, where key powers reside with individual states – and at state level, pro-gun laws are gaining ground.