Sentence examples for free associated from inspiring English sources

In 1950, it was given partial autonomy, as a "free associated state", but far from assuaging the independence struggle, the move merely exacerbated it.

What nationalist fervor Puerto Rico had was quashed, and the colony stayed bound to US-controlled capitalism as a "free associated state".

Neither Congress nor the American courts have ever embraced Muñoz's Spanish-language phrase for "commonwealth," universally recognized in Puerto Rico: "estado libre asociado," or free associated state.

On the second, 61 percent voted for statehood, 5 percent for independence, and 33 percent for sovereign free associated state.

Politics here inevitably revolves around the issue of the island's peculiar status in relation to the United States, with one major party advocating statehood and the other favoring a continuation of the current arrangement, known as a "free associated state".

"I'd like it to be a real free, associated sovereign country"—a reference to the formal arrangement between the U.S. and Puerto Rico, which in Spanish defines Puerto Rico as a U.S. "territorio libre asociado"—"with ties to the United States in which each one of us knew our duties and responsibilities.

They started free associating.

On Friday, Trump, who admitted to having had no sleep since his appearance in South Carolina, began free associating.

You may free associate the first 10+ qualities you relate to an image, color or experience from the dream.

She hasn't written anything since her mother intercepted a letter she wrote from camp about being blackout drunk; instead, she free-associated into a tape recorder.

Like a tour guide who had ingested some mind-altering substance, he free-associated amusingly about the architecture.