Sentence examples for of a statehood from inspiring English sources

But the needs of a statehood that has to be expansionist make continued success harder.

While some officials remain optimistic that a compromise can be found, the administration has simultaneously begun planning to limit the fallout of a statehood vote.

Mr. Erdogan also sought to sign on to the attempts, in anticipation of a statehood bid, to broker a reconciliation between the secular Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank and the Islamist militant faction Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.

In addition to its demand for federalism, the UWSA demands the upgradation of the Wa Self-Administered Division to a statehood status.

International law does not yet make democratic representative government a condition of statehood, or even a condition of membership of the UN (regional organisations are another matter).

It appropriates the regalia of independent statehood — a flag, borders, a potentate, the power to legislate — as an affirmation of pre-adolescent individuality.

He has all the trappings of statehood: a metropolitan capital, an army, a police force, an intelligence service, a school curriculum, a national anthem, a national flag--and coffers oozing with oil money.

The role of the Church is, instead, a pillar of Russian statehood and of a conservative order, professing many of the same virtues of quiescence favored in the Soviet era.

"The Israelis are proceeding on the theory that Arafat is on the path of riding the tiger toward a declaration of statehood on Nov. 15," a Western diplomat said.

"It changes the view that North Americans are racist and do not want us because of our color," said Albita Rivera, a supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico and president of the Women's Caucus in the Puerto Rican House of Representatives.

Utah was required to outlaw polygamy in its Constitution as a condition of statehood, but the crime of plural marriage has been prosecuted only a handful of times.