How To Use Confederation In A Sentence

  • Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
  • Instead of being a "multinational corporation," it will have to become a "transnational confederation. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
  • The United States once had to move from a confederation to a federation.
  • The hereditary president of the Confederation and commander of its troops was the King of Prussia, who embodied the principle of monarchical legitimacy.
  • 2003 – Under a new Constitutional Charter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted into a loose confederation of Serbia and Montenegro.
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  • The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government.
  • Under the SPLM's proposed confederation, the south and north would establish their own constitutions, with a common non-religious political system in the capital city.
  • The break-up of the confederacy followed a row between the two countries over the question of rotational leadership of the confederation.
  • Argentina's second-largest trade union confederation, led by teamster's leader Hugo Moyano, organized the protest.
  • The German language has a neat way of distinguishing between a loose confederation and a federal union.
  • He might be a Father to Confederation, but like all Reformers, he was intent on destroying the offspring, was a hot-headed revolutionary, a brawler and corruptionist.
  • In the name of egalitarianism, the tournament features the club champions of FIFA's six confederations, plus a representative from the host nation. Club Champions of the World
  • Switzerland, Holland, and the Rhenish Confederation, formed the foundation of the Continental System, a term applicable to the sum total of the measures that aimed at ruining England by excluding her goods from the Continent. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • In con- federation period, he advocated revising "the Articles of confederation" actively, and promoted to hold the constitutional convention.
  • A combination of encrypted identity-confederation services and escrow-based private contract-enforcement mechanisms will obsolesce government-based contract enforcement. Health and Taxes, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.
  • Certainly, this road to political unification or confederation is a long and rocky one. Inside the Common Market
  • The United States once had to move from a confederation to a federation.
  • Everyone knows that the future lies in international cooperation, in federations or confederations of states.
  • Obviously Alberta puts a lot more into confederation than they get out, from a purely dollars and cents perspective.
  • But the bureaucratic muddle began after ministers farmed the project out to the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities, the umbrella body for councils.
  • The confederation calls child domestic servitude, ‘One of the most exploitative forms of child labour’.
  • Instead of the international state system, anarchism proposes a confederation of communes and collectives.
  • Fourier believed a radically egalitarian society could be organized into a confederation of communes or phalansteries.
  • The Confederation of British Industry said dwindling gas reserves could lead to factory shutdowns and power cuts.
  • The head of a major labor confederation made the same request, adding that they should all march not as pacifists but as peaceable people.
  • Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise.
  • The justices stated unambiguously that Quebec has no legal right to secede unilaterally and that only a process of constitutional amendment can change Quebec's legal status within confederation.
  • The stoppage was organised by one of the trade union confederations representing Alitalia employees.
  • On the surface, a confederation is a union of sovereign states, but, underneath, it holds the possibility of moving from independence to unification.
  • He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.
  • In March 1777 he became one of Washington's aides-de-camp, an experience that sharpened his criticism of the weak Articles of Confederation government.
  • The curious thing is that in some ways this is the least globalised confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778.
  • Until the end of the twelfth century, the Mongols were little more than a loose confederation of rival clans.
  • Those who caught the previous extracts, including the Dora Award-winning Confederation, will know what to expect; tyros like myself, however, are in for a huge treat.
  • In fact the constitution of 1787 set out to do the opposite: to bolster the centre and weaken the power the states had briefly enjoyed under the new republic’s Articles of Confederation of 1777.
  • He called for the abandonment of expansionist politics and the formation of a voluntary confederation of European states to promote international cooperation.
  • One promising arrangement could be a confederation of independently governed areas or cantons, to be established in the territory between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
  • The United Arab Emirates is a confederation of seven sheikdoms (regions headed by a sheik or emir), or emirates, located on the shore of the Persian Gulf.
  • On August 1, 1291, three Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an act that later came to be regarded as the foundation of Switzerland.
  • Humans are killing the Earth and the alien confederation is distraught by this. Movie Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Olafsson Qing (a courier from the Confederation of Central Worlds) April 14th, 2008
  • In 1989, the Associated Chamber of Manufactures disaffiliated from the Confederation of Australian Industry.
  • The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.
  • As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
  • The Chilean Student Confederation announced plans for mass rallies across the country this Thursday in an escalation of the struggle.
  • The two countries made up a confederation for mutual safety.
  • There are even some liberals who argue that Quebec should be allowed to say "adieu" to the Canadian Confederation. Ken Blackwell: After the Flotilla Raid, Progressives Show Their True Colors
  • The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.
  • The rest went to members of the South American confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Franks were originally a loose confederation of Germanic tribes.
  • The Poles were still uncertain as to the ultimate fate which the Emperor reserved for their country; but a future bright with hope shone before their eyes, until these visions were rudely dispelled by the Emperor's reply to the deputation from the Polish confederation established at Warsaw. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • ‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said.
  • Peoples will know that they cannot become conquerors without losing their own liberty; that permanent confederations are the sole means of maintaining their independence; that they must seek security, not power.
  • The expression _multepal_, from _mul_, to do an act jointly, or in common, and _tepal_, to govern, is interesting as showing that the government of the country in its golden days of prosperity was not one of an autocratic monarch, but a league or confederation of the principal chiefs of the peninsula. The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
  • This places confederation towards the strategic center of the unification-independence spectrum, something that may have a positive effect on domestic political competition and integration.
  • The rest went to members of the South American confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The actions were called by all seven of the main trade union confederations and all the parties of the left, including the Socialist Party.
  • Confederation said the recovery in the tourist industry was 'anaemic', and could take up to five years. RTÉ News
  • The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.
  • The state had been erected upon lessons learned through centuries trying to maintain peace within an insular acephalous tribal society with a penchant for infighting and was most functional when it resembled a "loose" confederation in which legislative and judicial powers were pushed down to the local level - a concept analogous to America's states' rights. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
  • Italy has had three politically diverse and competing union confederations since the onset of the cold war.
  • Is ‘confederation’ just another word for two independent sovereignties talking to each other to coordinate, where possible, policy objectives and implementation?
  • AMs had given Cymuned cause for some optimism over housing; the Welsh NHS Confederation was urging the Assembly Government not to delay too long in reorganizing Welsh hospitals; Archive 2008-06-01
  • It gets weirder: funding was also denied to a producer who wanted to make a documentary about the Plains of Abraham because it took place before confederation.
  • Their historic encounter in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in June 2000 has initiated a thaw in relations that could lead, in time, to a confederation of the two Koreas and eventual reunification.
  • Fr Heck was a jubilarian in profession and priesthood, the senior member of the Swiss-American Congregation in profession, priesthood and age, and the senior in age of the entire confederation of Benedictine monks throughout the world. CathNews
  • His tireless advocacy of confederation with Canada paid off when a second referendum on 22 July 1948 closely approved incorporation with Canada.
  • One abuse that was prevalent during the Confederation was the exercise of judicial power by the state legislatures.
  • There has been devolution as well as confederation.
  • But at the Congress of VIENNA Swiss control was restored and the European powers guaranteed the confederation's neutrality.
  • Under warm, sunny skies, Will Fitzgerald of Confederation College won the men's 15 km CCUNC freestyle race.
  • The two trade union confederations undertook to refrain from general strikes in return for minimum wage and unemployment benefit guarantees.
  • Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
  • Country size, for instance, appears to be related to the propensity to centralise collective bargaining authority within national confederations.
  • Let me share with you some of my observations as they unfolded from the pages of history as revealed by a study of the records of politicians 100 years ago, the legislature, the pre-Confederation conferences and the early sessions of Parliament, beginning in October, 1867. The Spirit of '67
  • As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
  • The curious thing is that in some ways this is the least globalised confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • That is the arrangement by which the Fathers of Confederation, and succeeding generations, have placed ownership of natural resources with the provinces, while the main levers controlling international and interprovincial trade are in the hands of the federal government. Energy and a Sense of Balance
  • The Confederation of British Industry, the nation's biggest business lobby, predicted this week that the economy will shrink 3.9 percent this year, the most since at least 1948.
  • Although Mongol-led confederations sometimes exercised wide political power over their conquered territories, their strength declined rapidly after the Mongol dynasty in China was overthrown in 1368.
  • Hamilton went through those confederations one by one, sparing his audience a discussion of other examples although they would, he said, prove that the principle was destructive “even as far back as the Lycian and Achaean leagues.” Ratification
  • The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.
  • There is another and possibly even more serious result of the west's unhappiness over their position in confederation and this could result in the actual break-up of the country. The Politics of Western Canada: Revolt or Reform
  • Caritas is a confederation of organisations (local, national, and regional) to spread solidarity and social justice throughout the world.
  • CSUTCB; the "Bartolinas," a peasant women's confederation confederation; the colonisers confederation, CSCB (now know as intercultural communities, CSCIB) and the coca growers of the GlobalResearch.ca
  • Yet this condition is always annexed to the confederation, that if man be unmindful of the covenant and a contemner of its pleasant rule, he may always be impelled or governed by that domination which is really lordly, strict and rigid, and into which, he who refuses to obey the other [species of rule], justly falls. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • We take from our part in confederation-in material terms-in dollars and cents-more than we put into it. Optimism for the Future
  • South Africans wait near the stadium entrance a few hours before the Fifa Confederations Cup football match Spain vs South Africa on June 20, 2009 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
  • Had we been a confederation of states with roughly equal populations, America may have not created a bi-cameral legislature. Matthew Yglesias » The Filibuster Was Never a Good Idea
  • As with point 1, I don't see what this has to do with strengthening Alberta's place in confederation.
  • These new American states bound themselves into a revolutionary alliance that worked first through the Continental Congress and then, beginning in 1781, the Articles of Confederation.
  • An Industrial Workers of the World delegation has just returned from Haiti where we spent twelve days meeting with representatives of the Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens (Haitian Confederation of Workers) and other worker and peasant movements .... OpEdNews - Quicklink: IWW Delegation Returns from Haiti
  • One more case of state's massive suspects 'creation in the frame of daily repression and terrorism. (watch older updates) * Mr Panagopoulos,' syndicalist 'leader of GSEE (General Workers' Confederation of Greece), was attacked in Agrinio town with water and yoghurt by protesters condemning his position of not protecting the workers 'rights. De.indymedia.org newswire
  • Consensus-based constitutional conventionsdevolved tothe bioregional level, rewriting their constitutions to reflect a directly democratic, bioregionally-based confederation, with acentral coordinating function for common defense andfair trade, and including economic and cultural, as well political rights. TEN-POINT PROGRAM FOR SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
  • The EU at its present stage is neither a confederation nor a federation, but it is quite clear that European integration has fostered a system with a considerable degree of federalism.
  • So great was the influence of La Valette that he succeeded in making the "Languages" (or confederations of Knights) of Germany and Venice pay their "responsions," which had been allowed to get into arrear. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
  • Her ascent to the presidentship of the Kerala Electricity Board Employees Confederation had attracted attention not least because of the controversy it led to.
  • Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region.
  • The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.
  • He was on the French interministerial committee that eventually rejected confederation as likely to loosen political links between France and the new states.
  • Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
  • Separately, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, began a partial nationwide strike, Wednesday, in solidarity with the beef protesters.
  • It just might be that a healthy respect for the nation’s constitutional past – or, better yet, a jettisoning of the Constitution and a return to the Articles of Confederation or something like them – will emerge as the realization sinks in that Soviet-style centralization is untenable. House Judiciary Panel Hearings on ‘Imperial Presidency’ « Antiwar.com Blog
  • He argued that the Articles of Confederation, which had loosely united the states since the end of the war, were crippling congressional efficiency and needed to be revamped.
  • Writing in the Providence Gazette, “A Freeholder” advised that passage of the impost would shred the protections of local rights embodied in the Articles of Confederation, “at once destroying all the liberties of the several states, reducing them to so many provinces of Congress, and tending to the establishment of an aristocratical or monarchial government.” Robert Morris
  • The researchers attribute this apparent law-defying behavior to the banding together of variously dispersed magnons into a kind of quantum confederation.
  • It's a distinction that chafes Chinwe Okelu, former chair of the Mill Woods Presidents' Council, a confederation of community leagues.
  • Let them take that away, and within a year the Confederation under the Free Africander flag would be established; but so long as the English flag remains here the With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • The cell's complex inner composition cannot function at all unless all the parts are simultaneously present, working in tightly integrated confederation.
  • Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
  • The Confederation of British Industry, the nation's biggest business lobby, predicted this week that the economy will shrink 3.9 percent this year, the most since at least 1948.
  • Wilcox Vølund ApS ( 'BWV'), and the defendant, the Confederation of Danish Employers (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening) ( 'DA'), acting on behalf of BWV, concerning the dismissal of Mr Holst by BWV. EU News
  • All EU member states strive toward achieving a European Gemeinschaft without anticipating a particular political framework such as a federation, confederation or European commonwealth.
  • The European Builders Confederation has a membership of over 350,000 building companies.
  • It was notclear, following the American Revolution and Articles of Confederation, that the presidency would work, " saysRutgers Universityhistorian David Greenberg.
  • It is less than a federation and more than a regime, a kind of confederation but not yet a Gemeinschaft, neither state nor ordinary international organization.
  • The conservative cantons refused to revise the 1815 Pact, which guaranteed their sovereignty and gave them more power within the confederation than their population and economy warranted.
  • As organizations, each national party is a decentralized and loose confederation of state parties and of other affiliated groups.
  • The two countries made up a confederation for mutual safety.
  • federal governments often evolved out of confederations
  • They must, in particular, endeavour to further and deepen among all citizens and individuals and members of associations and communities, the understanding of and the support for the principles on which the Canadian confederation is based. Canadian Unity
  • More important, though, were his continued and inspired cogitations on the confederation's beleaguered finances.
  • The Confederation of British Industry deputy Yorkshire regional director has said that employees taking sickies would be letting themselves and colleagues down.
  • France is up to its Fifth republican constitution, while we have had two (counting the Articles of Confederation); although that does not count the constitutions of the Confederate States of America, the Republics of Texas and California, or short term anomalies including Vermont, Utah, and Hawaii. An Opening Manifesto
  • It is just one sign of both a blatant and subtle shift in strategy among the loose confederation of different organisations that make up the peace movement, now that war has started.
  • A pleasing confederation of curves, the Cornish rex has a long, graceful neck that leads to a comparatively small, narrow, somewhat egg-shaped head.
  • The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
  • The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.
  • The confederation has produced a nifty booklet of facts about managers to support its claim. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the Canadian capital, Ottawa, authorities snuffed and boarded up the Centennial Flame, which commemorates Canadian confederation, and erected barricades in anticipation of possible violence.
  • Solothurn and Fribourg were admitted to the confederation after a long dispute among the members. 1481
  • The republic would remain in a loose confederation with Yugoslavia, the ultimatum continued, which should be renamed the ‘Association of the States of Serbia and Montenegro’.
  • The action, which is officially a one-day strike called by all the trade union federations and confederations, will be continued indefinitely by many workers.
  • Various other terms are used such as syndicates, guilds and confederations, to denote the different industrial bodies, but they are all unions. Fascism
  • Despite the quite significant role of labor confederations, political life in Honduras has been dominated by civilian caudillos and military strongmen.
  • So Britain and Spain had access to Indian groups and lent expertise in aiding Indian confederations and alliances.
  • As a member of the Confederation's forces, I'm obligated to root out usurpers and traitors to the government.
  • The curious thing is that in some ways this is the least globalised confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • I know that the legislation is not supported by the confederation of iwi in Tainu.
  • The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.
  • Third, the semiconductor business is importantly shaped by confederations of producers banding together to promote technology standards.
  • This is not a confederation of states; it is a unified nation.
  • Next, on a motion by James Galloway, a Scottish immigrant and critic of the Constitution from Rockingham County in the Piedmont, a set of documents was read aloud, including the North Carolina constitution and bill of rights, the Articles of Confederation, the proposed federal Constitution, the resolution of the Confederation Congress asking the states to call ratifying conventions, and the act of the state legislature that had brought the delegates to Hillsborough. Ratification
  • In spite of missing engagements yesterday she was able to send recorded good wishes to Canada on the 150th anniversary of confederation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.
  • The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire.
  • It seems to me that the lesson that we should learn and take to heart and preach and exemplify, is that which was preached by the Honourable George Brown at the time of Confederation. Are We Equal to the Occasion?
  • Beginning as a railway in the first century of Canadian confederation, it entered Canada's second century as a multi-model transport, industrial and financial enterprise.
  • On September 25 it abolished the pro - Allende Central Labor Confederation.
  • It also underlines, in a sometimes embarrassingly blunt way, why for many in the current generation of Quebec political leaders the status quo of the Canadian confederation is unacceptable. The Association of Tomorrow
  • First, Slovenia had the status of federal republic in Yugoslavia; then, in 1974, with the emergence of the self-management system, it became a confederation.
  • Having thus used the terms ratify and confirm, even in regard to the old Confederation, it would have been strange indeed, if the people of the United States, after its formation, and when they came to establish the present Constitution, had spoken of the States, or the people of the States, as acceding to this constitution. Select Speeches of Daniel Webster
  • ‘As soon as it is ready, we will give it to all member federations and confederations in order to show there is transparency and the figures given are not rumours,’ Blatter said.
  • This peculiar electoral strategy only makes sense when it is understood that their stated aim is not to form a government but to remove Quebec from confederation entirely.
  • The development of modern Switzerland can be traced back to a confederation (loose political grouping) of several Alpine valley communities and states in the Middle Ages.
  • Emerging from the earlier Reformers with the creation of the Canadian Confederation, its initial support was based on a coalition between Ontario Nonconformists and Quebec anticlericals.
  • The term ambassador, if taken strictly, as seems to be required by the second of the articles of Confederation, comprehends the highest grade only of public ministers, and excludes the grades which the United States will be most likely to prefer, where foreign embassies may be necessary. The Federalist Papers
  • The Confederation of British Industry's distributive trades survey released last week leaves no doubt about the mood of British consumers.
  • In 1397 the chief men of the three countries met at Kalmar to arrange a basis for a permanent legal confederation (the Union of Galmar).
  • Rather than a unified central administration, there is a loose confederation of ministries.
  • Canadians in all strata of society became greatly disturbed by this threat and looked for ways to draw the northwestern regions of North America into confederation.
  • Federalism can be seen a compromise between the extreme concentration of power and a loose confederation of independent states for governing a variety of people usually in a large expanse of territory.
  • With the elements of national power coalescing at the tactical level of war, a loose confederation of governmental agencies at the combatant commander level is simply insufficient.
  • Membership in the Astronomical League, a confederation of amateurs and their organizations, has doubled in the last decade to 20,000 members.
  • Another delegate, William Heath, recalled that the parade include a ship called the “new Constitution” on a sledge pulled by thirteen horses, with men on board who represented “a flourishing commerce,” and another boat “representing the old Confederation, very leaky and irrepairable.” Ratification
  • Europe works best as a confederation, with provisional federal powers for acute problems, subject to expiration clauses.
  • In this case also the consideration which becomes paramount is the possibility of pre - serving the unity of the two great races that are joint partners in Confederation. National Policy—1939 Version
  • The Confederation of British Industry, an employers' body, wants the law changed to make it harder to strike, by requiring at least 40% of union members to vote in a strike ballot for it to be lawful.
  • This confederation of hayseeds took control of North Dakota after World War I.
  • It actually evolved as a " loose confederation of hill tribes. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • The action, which is officially a one-day strike called by all the trade union federations and confederations, will be continued indefinitely by many workers.
  • the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation
  • The speed with which it had been able to assemble and deploy such a conscript army conferred upon the German Confederation an advantage over the French, who struggled to get a smaller army into the field over a longer period of time.
  • The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
  • The measures were endorsed by government and opposition parties, as well as the main trade union confederations, but were opposed by the independent union movements that are popular amongst public sector workers.
  • We have been in conflict from the time we entered into Confederation. The Position of Prince Edward Island
  • To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation, the state sovereignties were certainly competent.
  • The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
  • From 1776 to 1789 the United States were a confederation; after 1789 it was a federal nation.
  • The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government.
  • While using the word confederation, I do not, of course, imply that anything similar to the federal union of Switzerland or of North America existed in Italy. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • Hours after the elections, the employers confederation demanded more liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation of the economy, as well as wage controls and cuts in public spending.
  • Although they could challenge sedentary empires by a process of confederation, provided they maintained their mobile way of life, there was no way that these nomadic and sedentary empires could be regarded as like units.
  • Nevertheless the great confederation of the Canaanitic cities (perhaps to be identified with the Hyksos), backed the Phoenician cities, the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise.
  • While the confederation is technically illegal, it has been allowed to function openly.
  • Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
  • Again, it seems to have been inferred -- indeed, it has been so stated repeatedly, by persons who boast of his confidence -- that it was owing to his arrest and absence from the council of the Confederation, that measure of fatal rashness was adopted, of which he became the first victim; although it was his discretion and ability that kept the "Jacquerie," who then obtained the ascendant, in check from the beginning. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848
  • The auto unionists account for the largest of the confederation members.
  • The Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry recently released a headcount showing that only 20 percent of its members have reached the required threshold of female representation.
  • In one of Lien Chan's books, New Blueprint, New Dynamism, written in 2001, he declared the KMT's ultimate goal was unification with the mainland on the basis of a confederation.
  • Rather than a unified central administration, there is a loose confederation of ministries.
  • The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
  • In fact the majority of UK funds raised between Confederation and the First World War were used to finance the construction of Canada's two transcontinental railways.
  • This larger confederation would in turn be a particular state, with its own personality, its own interests, its own physiognomy.
  • This simple fact gives the Prime Minister unbridled power and our confederation is littered with the corpses of bad legislation forced through Parliament by unscrupulous, corrupt Prime Ministers. The Stephen Harper Party [And Assorted Conservatives] « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • Currently, three confederations of peasant organizations work to promote peasants' interests in national public policy discussion and occasionally intervene to support peasants in land conflicts.
  • In his latest book he argues for a Franco-German confederation that can enable Europe ‘to protect its interests.’

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