Sentence examples for former mandates from inspiring English sources

Considering France's historical tendency to concentrate on former mandates like Lebanon and Syria, this was seen as a rather significant break with tradition.

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Henceforth the term Palestinian will be used when referring to the Arabs of the former mandated Palestine, excluding Israel.

In 1945 Australia combined its administration of Papua and that of the former mandate into the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, which it administered from Canberra via Port Moresby.

He argues for a common health insurance pool to cover the former, mandated by government and irrespective of employment status, with competing but regulated plans.

In 1948, when British rule of Palestine ended, Israeli forces managed to push most of the Arab forces that joined the war to the former Mandate boundaries, which became temporary ceasefire lines.

In November 1947, Nauru became a United Nations trust territory, an arrangement paralleling the former League of Nations mandate.

France has other reasons to care about what happens in Syria, including protecting neighboring Lebanon, a former French mandate.

We should therefore call instead for a single, democratic state in the whole of the former British Mandate for Palestine.

It was taken on the 65th anniversary of the vote to divide the former British mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, a vote Israel considers the international seal of approval for its birth.

"If there were one place in the world where the French would go along with the United States," he said, "it would be Syria," a former French mandate territory next to Lebanon.