Sentence examples for of a federation from inspiring English sources

Substate national movements within countries such as Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the United Kingdom are heterogeneous: some nationalists advocate independence, others seek an autonomous special status within the state, and yet others often seek greater self-government as a constituent unit of a federation or federal system.

Constitutional asymmetry means that the component units of a federation do not have equal relationships with each other and with the federal authority.

He is at the apex of a federation whose very existence is in question.

He appeared committed to the restoration of a federation dominated by Serbia.

Suppose that the centre wishes to make transfers between member states of a federation to reduce inequality.

Police have been called in to investigate the financial affairs of a federation running four of the Government's academies.

"The Davis Cup is very important in the life of a player and in the life of a federation".

Louis Gallois, head of a federation of organisations working on poverty, slammed the measure for "hitting the poorest people foremost".

O'Malley's capital would be symbolic of a federation forged without the cold steel, cordite and corpses defining nationhood elsewhere.

The total computation associated with Data Distribution Management during the execution of a federation can be separated into four processes: declaring, matching, connecting, and routing.

Finally, we have envisioned the creation of a federation of model repositories where models documented within a local repository could be linked and even executed by other researchers.