Sentence examples for territory granted from inspiring English sources

Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote in all elections in 1869.

The Mong Kok site is the second area to be partially cleared since the high court in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory granted injunctions to let authorities start dismantling sections of the protest camps.

In 1610 he was named admiral of Virginia and commissioned to expel the French from all territory granted to the English by James I. In 1613 he sailed up the Potomac River, searching for corn for the colonists, and abducted the Powhatan Indian princess Pocahontas, whom he held hostage for the return of seven English prisoners.

It would have sufficed for the US and its allies to withdraw active participation and inform their associates in the Indonesian military command that the atrocities must be terminated and the territory granted the right of self-determination, as upheld by the United Nations and the international court of justice.

"Turkey cannot accept this to be taken further".] Turkey is pressing the Bush administration to restrict the rights and territory granted Iraqi Kurds in any future Iraqi government, arguing, for example, that the country's northern oil fields should be kept out of Kurdish hands.

Following the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Leigh was abolished and its territory granted as part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, a local government district of Greater Manchester.

Over the following year, the U.S.S.R. proceeded to take claim of the territories granted to it by the pact.

By Norman times, Goodrich formed part of the Welsh Marches, a sequence of territories granted to Norman nobles in, and alongside, Wales.

Recycling management has always been funded by levies and state and territory grants.

As to conquest, the Court noted: "War is a suit prosecuted by the sword; and where the question to be decided is one of original claim to territory, grants of soil made flagrante bello by the party that fails, can only derive validity from treaty stipulations.

As the secretary-general says in his report: "The proposed framework agreement is not unlike agreements used to address similar situations elsewhere, where a devolution of authority to the inhabitants of a non-self-governing territory is granted with the final status of the territory to be determined by a referendum".