Sentence examples for federation comprised from inspiring English sources

The federation comprised rural cantons as well as city states that had expanded their territories into the countryside by political and military means at the cost of the previously ruling liege lords.

Some leaders in this group have even hinted that they might pull out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. if the federation, comprising 60 unions, shunned their calls for change.

War broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s following the dissolution of the Yugoslav federation, comprising Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Yet farming, forestry and new-found oil have the potential to fuel faster economic growth.Instead, Mr Museveni's focus now is dynastic; he wants to preside over some kind of East African federation, comprising Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, perhaps with a family member succeeding him in Kampala's State House.

According to IDC, a research firm, the market for PC-powering chips that use Intel's x86 processor architecture, which Intel dominates, was about 400m last year.The ARM federation comprises not only chipmakers but also designers of chipmaking tools, devicemakers and software companies.

Though the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, continued to make proposals for setting up a central European federation comprising the former Habsburg lands and even southern Germany, the European Advisory Commission in London assumed that Austria would return to sovereignty within the borders of 1937.

The university is a federation, comprising over forty self-governing colleges and halls, along with a central administration headed by the Vice-Chancellor.

Mr. Kostunica, who has been president of Yugoslavia since Mr. Milosevic's ouster, is seeking a new job because the federation comprising Serbia and Montenegro will be dissolved later this year.

The federation guard, comprising servicemen and women from the three branches of the defence force, stood at attention in the forecourt as Turnbull arrived with his wife, Lucy, to bursts of Waltzing Matilda from the army band.

On 27 May, Malaya's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, mooted the idea of a Federation of Malaysia, comprising existing Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Brunei and the British Borneo territories of Sabah and Sarawak.

That sum comprised a £5m transfer fee for River Plate plus a 24% tax levy due to the Argentinian football federation.