Sentence examples for territory status from inspiring English sources

The Free Territory status was unworkable, however, and deadlock immediately followed the ratification of the treaty.

These feelings of uncertainty about territory, status and power where material rewards are unevenly distributed and are continually shifting, leave people on insecure ground, which encourages the erection of boundaries.

The only places retaining overseas territory status are French Polynesia (with its capital at Papeete on the island of Tahiti), New Caledonia, the Wallis and Futuna islands in the Pacific, and the Adélie Land claim in Antarctica.

In 1495 Henry VII formally revoked the Marcher territory status of Cardiff Castle and the surrounding territories, bringing them under normal English law as the County of Glamorgan.

Yogyakarta went on to play a leading role in the revolution, which would result in the city being granted its own Special Territory status.

The White House has recognized that, on November 6 , 2012 a majority of the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico withdrew their consent to the current territory status, which deprives them of the most fundamental democratic rights.

Now that the United Nations has voted to grant the Palestinian territories status as a nonmember state, one question is whether the Palestinians will use their enhanced status for renewed negotiations in the spirit of peace and reconciliation or for confronting Israel in new ways through the United Nations system, and possibly the International Criminal Court.

Today, the Falklands, population 2,563, remains a British overseas territory, a status that Argentina still bitterly contests.

Hong Kong's conservative business community is alarmed by the effort, too, seeing a threat to the territory's status as a financial center.

Since then Funai, the justice ministry, the public prosecutor's office and various judges have argued over the territory's status.

Hardline separatists in Indian Kashmir have been swift to reject the bus deal as a sop that avoids the real issue of the territory's status.