Sentence examples for self-governing territory from inspiring English sources

A mass flight of Sahrawi refugees and decades of armed conflict followed, as the UN declared the region a "non self-governing territory".

While the newly elected councils will not wield much power, they will have responsibility for education, transport, health care and other local services as part of the United Nations plan to develop Kosovo into a self-governing territory.

Meanwhile, Russia has complained that it was not informed when the FBI arrested a Russian man in the Northern Mariana Islands in the north-west Pacific, a US self-governing territory, a week ago.

Northern Territory, self-governing territory of Australia, occupying the central section of the northern part of the continent.

In 1997, he initiated federal legislation to override another self-governing territory, killing off a Northern Territory law allowing voluntary euthanasia.

In 1952, after Puerto Rico was granted commonwealth status, the United States advised the United Nations (UN) that the island was a self-governing territory.

The committee's chair, Rafael Ramírez, said at the time the mandate extended only to the 17 states identified by the UN as "non self-governing territories".

It's not in fact part of the UK but a self governing territory within the British Commonwealth.

This began an accretion of provinces and territories to the new self-governing Dominion.

Below the heading, he attached chapter 11 of the UN charter, which legislates for non-self governing territories.

The imperial residue of overseas territoriesSINCE 1946, the United Nations has compiled a list of the world's "Non-Self-Governing Territories": overseas domains it considers, in effect, to be colonies.