Sentence examples for major commonwealth from inspiring English sources

The only major Commonwealth country not represented was Canada, which decided not to attend.

Following the war, a major Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery was established on Labuan.

When the SI standard was published in 1960, the only major Commonwealth country to have adopted the metric system was India.

Both have been applied to major Australian Commonwealth fisheries and, with various modifications, adopted internationally.

That could have caused major problems for the commonwealth, but it didn't do that," she said.

The Australian prime minister arrived on Friday in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, where he met with British PM David Cameron ahead of a major address to a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm).

The Abbot Point expansion cleared a major hurdle by gaining commonwealth approval on Tuesday, on the condition that it complies with strict provisions relating to how and where dredge spoil can be dumped.

In the four years between the 2008 Games and the 2012 Olympics, British gymnasts more than doubled the number of major medals won at Commonwealth, European and World Championship level in comparison to the four-year cycle leading up to Beijing.

Each pair was copped in DMV-area stores like Commonwealth and Major.

The fund, he said, "can become a major economic springboard for the commonwealth by focusing on job creation in the renewable energy sector".

Victories won by Hetman Jan (John III) Sobieski only temporarily forestalled the threat, and in 1672 the Commonwealth faced a major invasion by Turkey.