Sentence examples for fully fledged state from inspiring English sources

The UK has a Green Investment Bank and the British Business Bank – neither of which are fully fledged state banks with borrowing powers.

The irony is that while others may be dismantling theirs, ours is being created even before we have a fully fledged state.

Salmond argues that independence is the natural, bold choice for Scotland, allowing Holyrood to grow from a devolved assembly into a fully fledged state parliament, one that reflects the country's more socially liberal views than those of the rest of the UK.

But why not a fully fledged state bank dealing directly with the public, able to direct the direction and levels of investment in the public interest, using the services of local post offices and providing general banking services without the need for enormous salaries and bonuses?

The debate continued throughout 2007 on whether Puerto Rico should become a fully fledged U.S. state, attain complete independence, or forge a new type of commonwealth relationship with the U.S. A U.S. congressional committee examined these options in various hearings.

But Hamas wants the UN to work firmly under its auspices, as it would in a fully-fledged state.

Oil production and sales are crucial for the jihadist group as they attempt to evolve into a government and fully-fledged state.

Previously these closely linked areas were split between two different ministers, now they both fall under the responsibility of one fully fledged minister of state.

No other country in Europe has a fully fledged alternative to its state schools.

There is no other country in Europe where private schools present a fully fledged alternative to the state system, open essentially only to the affluent.

In his grandly named "state of the union" speech this week, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission (the EU's civil service), urged the euro zone to march towards a fully fledged "federation of nation-states".Others are using the F-word, too.