Sentence examples for island commonwealth from inspiring English sources

Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Spanish Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, self-governing island commonwealth of the West Indies, associated with the United States.

Mr. Diaz, the councilman, said that on the flight down they ate sandwiches, drank sodas and "talked politics," arguing among themselves over the status of the island commonwealth.

It was not, by any measure, a groundbreaking speech, but then, Mr. Obama's visit here is as much about wooing Hispanic voters in the swing state of Florida as it is about reassuring Puerto Ricans that the United States has not forgotten its island commonwealth in the Caribbean.

In his annual speech on the state of Puerto Rico this evening, Governor Rossello portrayed the agreement as a victory for the island, a commonwealth of the United States.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg flew a delegation of Puerto Rican politicians, mostly City Council members, here on his private jet today for a sweltering celebration of the island's commonwealth status.

His radio persona -- which frequently takes aim at local corruption and the island's commonwealth status, among other targets -- evolved not as a ratings gimmick, he says, but out of frustration.

A18 Recount Likely in Puerto Rico A recount is all but certain in the race for governor in Puerto Rico after the Election Night tally gave the candidate who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status a lead of just 3,880 votes.

José Trías Monge, a former chief justice of Puerto Rico who helped create the island's commonwealth relationship with the United States but later denounced it as thinly disguised colonialism, died on June 24 in Boston.

Mr. Fortuño, a member of the New Progressive Party — which carries more meaning here than his identification as a Republican — has said he would push for statehood even as the Popular Democratic Party of his predecessor called this week for maintaining the island's commonwealth status.

The island's commonwealth status is a vestige of the bygone colonial era, and it should be definitively ended with the creation of our 51st state.

Pentagon officials have proposed leasing Pagan Island from Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to use for live-fire amphibious practice, including "guns-blazing war games on Pagan at least 16 weeks a year," the Los Angeles Times reports.