Sentence examples for part of commonwealth from inspiring English sources

That means if the commonwealth wants to hand the states control of health and hospitals, for example, the fastest growing part of commonwealth expenditure, it would also have to provide some means of paying for it, given that the states have very few revenue raising options of their own.

Australia's participation in this operation would have involved elements of all three services fighting as part of Commonwealth forces.

The existence of such a definition in some parts of commonwealth law could be a place to start for the government in considering the amendment, a point the independent senator Nick Xenophon made on Tuesday.

Long peculiar in regarding the Republic of Ireland as part of the Commonwealth, the Booker is now further complicated by both the fact that Canada is closer culturally to the US than when the Booker started, and the frequency of emigration from Ireland to America.

So it was that Juanes came down with two fellow Puerto Rican artists, which under the current (dating back to before the 1900s) situation for that island nation pretty much means part of the commonwealth of the United States and technically US citizens.

(Australia is still part of the Commonwealth and thus technically under the rule of Queen Elizabeth II).

This week, a spokesman for Shenhua said the company expected the water trigger to be applied as part of the commonwealth assessment and "we have prepared accordingly".

Grenada was part of the Commonwealth, and Margaret Thatcher was incensed that she had not been consulted or even given prior warning.

Newly released White House tape transcripts reveal how Ronald Reagan sought to mollify an angry Margaret Thatcher after the US invaded Grenada, part of the Commonwealth, without giving her advance warning.

Declaring the games open the Queen said: "The baton relay represents a calling together of people from every part of the Commonwealth and serves as a reminder of our shared ideals and ambitions as a diverse, resourceful and cohesive family.

This was in Virginia, the most bellicose of American states (not excepting Texas) and in a part of the commonwealth so thoroughly militarized that by the mid-1930s it resembled an armed encampment.