Sentence examples for full statehood from inspiring English sources

The Palestinians also began their more tricky bid for full statehood at the UN.

Meghalaya was created as an autonomous state within Assam in 1970 and achieved full statehood on Jan.

Mr. Lazio said that he did not believe that "full statehood" would be "sustainable from a security standpoint for Israel".

So, officials say, it is unlikely that a Security Council resolution will grant the province full statehood.

Although challenged by advocates of full statehood or independence, the commonwealth endured plebiscites in 1967 and 1993.

It needs 100 for full statehood and the Kosovo government urged its Serbian counterparts to hold further talks on its future.

But the effort has been largely shrugged off by Palestinian officials, who pledge to carry on with the full-statehood vote regardless of the near impossibility of it passing.

Mr. Bush said he envisioned a provisional Palestinian state until full, permanent statehood could be achieved, perhaps in three years.

He is said to fear that once it is achieved it will downgrade the Middle East dispute to just another argument over borders, slowing momentum to full Palestinian statehood.

As the debate continued into the 21st century, striking parallels could be drawn to the period of Spanish colonial rule, when the choices of full assimilation (statehood), autonomy (commonwealth), or independence for the island were also deliberated.

Rather than the swift resolution of all disputes sought by the plan, Mr. Sharon wants a long-term "interim solution" before full Palestinian statehood, arguing that it will take many years for the two peoples to learn to live together peacefully.