Sentence examples for than statehood from inspiring English sources
Although that relationship has become politically controversial, the vast majority of Puerto Rican voters have continued to favour permanent union with the United States, with a slightly greater number favouring the current commonwealth relationship rather than statehood.
(2) raises questions about whether sovereignty requires the acquisition of full statehood with complete authority over domestic and international affairs, or whether something less than statehood suffices.
On Destination Casa Blanca this week, Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation noted that statehood had never received more than 50% in the previous three, non-binding votes.
The young student leftists I met were more interested in land and social reform than in statehood.
She was an advocate of maintaining Puerto Rico's status as a commonwealth of the United States, rather than seeking statehood or independence.
The group's 1933 masterpiece, "Duck Soup," takes on a larger institution than academia — statehood — as Groucho (here the President of the struggling nation of Freedonia) and Chico and Harpo (his secret agents) aim fusillades at every aspect of war with an abandon unmatched until Stanley Kubrick made "Dr. Strangelove," forty years later.
"If Barzani does push for independence, he's gambling that the Turks will concede that, one, KRG oil deals are more valuable than KRG statehood is dangerous, and two, that Kurds are still a valuable buffer zone vis-a-vis Iran," said analyst Lee Smith.
He seems ready to settle for political and cultural rights rather than outright Kurdish statehood.
To the Editor: Georgia agrees that "phantom states" are fundamentally destabilizing and that they should focus on the needs of their people rather than on attaining statehood.
Mr. Arafat's commitment to peace seems uncertain, and many Israelis now suspect that he would rather proclaim Palestinian statehood than negotiate it, inviting further clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli Army.
That the Palestinians would direct their frustration at a President who has arguably been more active in advancing efforts to achieve Palestinian statehood than any before him may be politically advantageous in the short-run, but ultimately lacks foresight.
