Sentence examples for former dominion from inspiring English sources

The group, which includes Suzanne Chetwin, former Dominion chief Richard Long and ex-New Zealand Herald editor Gavin Ellis, also criticise the trend towards "click-bait stories" at a time when television has "all but abandoned current affairs and our public discourse is increasingly glib".

For Washington, the temptation to kick Russia while it was down and gobble up its former dominion was irresistible.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate, spiritual leader of the world's 250 million Orthodox, does not support efforts to revert its former dominion into a church.

Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as a former dominion of the English Crown, and "Mother of Presidents" due to the many U.S. presidents having been born there.

In 1948, former Dominion Statistician, Herbert Marshall (1888 1977), amended the Statistics Act to give the federal government authority to "collect, compile, analy[z]e, abstract and publish statistics" to include "hospitals, mental institutions, tuberculosis institutions, and charitable and benevolent institutions".

The first world war launched Britain's former dominions as independent nations.

In the former dominions, British-style honours have been problematic for a long time.

While the frenzy for "Downton Abbey" runs its course, two new series remind us that not all television imports from Britain and its former dominions are so genteel.

They include toppling its pro-American president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and using intimidation to stop Georgia and Ukraine from following the Poles, Czechs, Balts and other former dominions of the Soviet Union into the orbit of the West and thence into NATO.

Finally, the act binds all future parliaments: it is just not possible for the parliament at Westminster to repeal the Statute of Westminster and legislate once more for its former dominions.

But when the Ottoman Empire fizzled out and the Turkish Republic was born in 1923, they all but sealed themselves off from their former dominions, turning instead to Europe and tightly embracing America in its cold war with the Soviet Union.The Turks are now back in the Middle East, in the benign guise of traders and diplomats.