Sentence examples for federative from inspiring English sources

Six of them are within the territories of the federative republic of Colombia, composed of nine States, previously part of New Granada, but the seventh proposed line for the canal passes through the soil of the two independent republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, whose interests by no means coincide with those of the republic of Colombia.

Possibly when the time comes the two sides will be less keen than they are now on a complete union and more in favour of some kind of federative solution.

His intervention in a conflict between cantonal factions over the admission of Fribourg and Solothurn to the Swiss Confederation led to the agreement of Stans (December 22 , 1481, which forestalled civil war and strengthened the federative bond of the member cantons.

The Union of Lublin (1569) established a federative state of two nations with a jointly elected mutual king grand duke and legislature (a unique feature in Europe) and a customs union but with separate territories, laws, administrations, treasuries, and armies.

This is a list of cities and towns in Brazil, ordered alphabetically by unidad federativa (federative unit).

Many who favour the system maintain that it provides presidents with a special federative majority and a broad national mandate for governing, unifying the two major parties across the country and requiring broad geographic support to win the presidency.

He hoped to save the Habsburg monarchy by drawing up a federative structure.

Since the monasteries had done so much to create the new Europe now bursting into architectural flower, it is appropriate that there are two families of churches that express the greatness of Burgundian federative monasticism: Cluny and Cîteaux.

Now the euro crisis has exposed the need for a federative push to give the shared currency political backbone.

In time the euro's defense will demand a federative leap forward.

In Nigeria, Cameroon's neighbor to the north, the national team, the Super Eagles, also plays a federative role (when it is not frustrating its supporters by underachieving).