Sentence examples for statehood whose from inspiring English sources

Still, there is potential for conflict on any number of issues, whether on military policy or the bid for Puerto Rican statehood, whose opponents Mr. Black has represented.

However, to a people who are primed for statehood, whose anchor for a fair solution is already a compromise (West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza make up 22percentt of Mandate Palestine) and who have an alternative to the negotiated solution, this will not do.

By 1848 Taylor had come to oppose the creation of new slave states, and in December 1849 he called for immediate statehood for California, whose new constitution explicitly prohibited slavery.

Rosselló, whose pro-statehood New Progressive Party is loosely affiliated with the Democratic Party, suggested that Trump was getting bad data and urged him to meet in person to talk.

He rattled off states, such as Arizona and Wisconsin, whose requests for statehood were made in votes with woefully low turnouts.

The journeys perpetuate a history of exodus and oppression for Kurds, a community whose ambitions for statehood have been thwarted for decades by Middle Eastern governments and their Western benefactors.

Russia remains a country with thousands of nuclear warheads, and nervous neighbours whose newly-resumed statehood would be under threat if nationalist non-democrats took over in the Kremlin.

By 1930 a number of Indian Muslims had begun to think in terms of separate statehood for their minority community, whose population dominated the northwestern provinces of British India and the eastern half of Bengal, as well as important pockets of the United Provinces and the great princely state of Kashmir.

By contrast, the Palestinians, whose main demand is statehood, find their negotiating leverage much reduced.

As for the second part, US diplomats will have fun explaining why the US maintains membership of the World Bank and IMF – which have admitted Kosovo, whose disputed territory and statehood, rightly or wrongly, has far less general recognition than Palestine's.

Dajani observed that the current bid for UN recognition highlights a crucial tension between these visions, and he distinguished between the dominant Palestinian authorities, whose maneuverings to win statehood have "sacrificed the vibrancy of the [PLO] movement," and a younger cohort seeking to shift the discussion to human rights.