Sentence examples for recent commonwealth from inspiring English sources

His wardrobe during the recent Commonwealth talks featured rolled-up shirt sleeves for day, and striped T-shirts for evening.

President Jagdeo met with Gordon Brown on the sidelines of a recent Commonwealth Summit in Uganda where they discussed the proposal.

The Asian games, starting in September in Incheon, will provide a platform for animal-rightists to protest over Koreans' fondness for eating dogs.The most recent Commonwealth games, held in Delhi in 2010, were memorable only for unfinished facilities, disgruntled athletes and tummy bugs.

A recent Commonwealth initiative, led President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, to end the standoff between Zimbabwe and its former colonial master, Britain, extracted an agreement by Zimbabwe to halt further invasions of white-owned farms and a pledge from Britain to fulfill its promise to help pay for redistributing land to poor blacks.

When David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, visited Sri Lanka for the recent Commonwealth summit, he was right to insist loudly and publicly on the need for a proper investigation into the carnage at the end of its civil war in 2009.

Between them they have already won five medals at these European Championships, matching their combined tally at the recent Commonwealths.

The Queensland opposition leader, Lawrence Springborg, said the health funding proposal as it stood would not be something the Liberal National party would support and would fly in the face of recent increases to commonwealth funding.

He also cited a more recent case in Massachusetts, Commonwealth v. Levesque, in which a homeless couple was charged with manslaughter after they accidentally started a fire, in 1999, in a Worcester warehouse.

But recent maneuvers by the board of the CommonWealth real estate investment trust put the company in a class by itself.

The TNT analyst Steve Kerr stopped short of a prediction, but likened Florida Gulf Coast's confidence and belief in itself to that of tournament darlings Virginia Commonwealth and George Mason in recent years.

The commonwealth has become more Democratic in recent years, but the G.O.P. gerrymander showed the power of creative line-drawing.