Sentence examples for self-governing nations from inspiring English sources

Earlier this week, Jean Claude Juncker made it very clear that democracy, and the idea of self-governing nations, are not compatible with the aims of the Eurozone.

Late in 1926, at the Imperial Conference in London, King's was probably the determining voice in securing the declaration of equality of status of the self-governing nations of the empire, thereafter styled the Commonwealth.

In reality, if not yet in name, the British Commonwealth of Nations had come into being, as recognized by Article IX of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917, which stated that the British Empire was made up of self-governing nations as well as colonies, with India in a special position.

When the six colonies of the Australian continent federated to form a self-governing nation in 1901, Australia favoured the British model of government as they had misgivings about America's powerful postwar "monarchical" presidency.

"I want us to be a self-governing nation.

One is a proud, self-governing nation taking its own decisions.

The Cook Islands – a self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand – is a popular tourist destination.

From now, they say, Britain will be a proud, self-governing nation unshackled by the edicts of Brussels.

And they can now focus with confidence on the task of creating a hopeful and self-governing nation.

These rights and "truths," the very idea of one self-governing nation, are grand concepts, abstract and elevated.

Second, from its birth as a self-governing nation in 1867 Canada was a multicultural mixture of British and French settlers and the indigenous people they called Indians.