He encouraged the Mormons to be self-sufficient and created an independent commonwealth. |
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The costs are reimbursed to the commonwealth only after the claim is successful. |
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Since they were in effect excluded from membership of the English commonwealth, they continued to cultivate their own separate identity. |
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Whether he will entirely convince his readers that England was first amongst equals in a commonwealth of British nations remains to be seen. |
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According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties. |
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The Union of Lublin in 1569 united Poland and Lithuania into a commonwealth. |
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The co-operative commonwealth itself is, they insist, for the distant future. |
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Luckily for American visitors, Puerto Rico is very much a U.S. commonwealth, with English widely spoken and the dollar the coin of the realm. |
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A U.S. commonwealth since 1952, Puerto Rico has maintained a strong sense of nationalism. |
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The executive mansion of the commonwealth is said to be the oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. |
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For he must in the true sense of the word serve no one but the commonwealth. |
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Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, meaning that it is subject to most federal regulations and subsidies. |
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Because the states directly provide the greatest share of schools funding, the percentage increases for the commonwealth are higher. |
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This is Beacon Hill, the state house for the commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
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The commonwealth of Pennsylvania mandates that all dog owners license their pets by the time they are six months old. |
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Sovereignty, said Bodin, was that absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth. |
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It has not happened because the commonwealth lacks the constitutional power and the states have never all agreed to relinquish responsibility. |
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Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government. |
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Jean Bodin's famous definition of 1576 of the commonwealth was one which the following century could instinctively cleave to. |
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The states ceded some taxation powers to the commonwealth around the time of the second world war. |
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Chapters 10 and 11 dig more deeply into the mechanisms that transform capitalism and lead to a socialist commonwealth. |
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The site has story ideas, regional links and everything you ever wanted to know about the commonwealth. |
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In it, Cicero lays out the laws that would be followed in the ideal commonwealth. |
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They feared immigration from Asia and so decided to federate their six colonies into one commonwealth. |
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Walking back across the road I spat a mouthful of water onto the windscreen of Howard's commonwealth car. |
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Now in addition to the commonwealth, all state governments support non-government schools. |
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Orders to the units would come down in English, but they still needed to be translated into Spanish, Tagalog, or any of the other dialects used by commonwealth troops. |
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Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth. |
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But as a self-governing commonwealth, the Marianas were exempt from U.S. labor standards and even immigration laws. |
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A review of electronic security inside commonwealth agencies has reportedly uncovered a culture of theft and lax security inside the public service. |
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Our commonwealth neighbor to the north also had its own geopolitical motives for turning out at the box office. |
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We believe it is illegal for the commonwealth to wash its hands of its responsibilities. |
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It could only be used in dealing with commonwealth terrorism offences with a maximum penalty of at least seven years in jail. |
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I suggested the creation of a commonwealth among these countries in order to strengthen relations in the political neighbourhood. |
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It was a liberal empire and a democratic commonwealth, and its aim, as with America in the Philippines, was to prepare its components for self-government. |
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It was a colony from 1898 until 1952, when it became a commonwealth. |
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He succeeded in creating a commonwealth in the warring tribes in Arabia. |
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I was impressed by the gifts from all nations in the commonwealth. |
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Despite political initiatives aimed at redefining Guam's status as a U.S. commonwealth, it remained an unincorporated territory as the twentieth century ended. |
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If Puerto Ricans vote to become a state, there will be a huge push by the Democrats to admit this largely Democratic commonwealth to the U.S. as the 51st state. |
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The commonwealth of Virginia has seen a significant increase in the number of joint-use facilities and collaborative partnerships in recent years. |
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And it's an historic day because finally all families in the commonwealth of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to be equal families under the law. |
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He pointed out that the commonwealth had the power, under international environmental treaties, to stop any development that was threatening protected wetlands. |
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The notion of a commonwealth, of a common good, is disappearing. |
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His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book. |
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Maj. Gen. M.A.R. West, commanding commonwealth Division, ceremonially dropped the puck in the regimental championship game. |
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For years there were no pre-qualifications for an attorney to handle capital cases in the commonwealth. |
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The family that led the revolt made themselves rulers of the re-established judaean commonwealth. |
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Consequently, in 1998 the commonwealth government revised the Terms of Reference of ADRC to provide ADRC the status of an independent review committee with recommendatory powers. |
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Nor did the Hamiltonian scheme of federal finance guarantee a peaceful commonwealth. |
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But after discovering a number of commonwealth laws may have been breached, the investigation has been handed over to the Australian federal police. |
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. |
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India's role in the British commonwealth of Nations has been really instrumental. |
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However, under that act, the minister for finance has the power to approve a waiver of debt of an amount owing to the commonwealth which totally extinguishes that debt. |
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Those noble words mean that in their free association these commonwealth countries look to the Queen, each with the right of direct appeal, and through the Crown they proclaim their brotherhood. |
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Commissioners for securing the peace of the commonwealth were appointed to work with them in every county. |
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Sri Lanka as many other commonwealth countries follow the British system with its own distinctions. |
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The island was governed as an independent commonwealth under the Althing, one of the world's oldest functioning legislative assemblies. |
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This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained, and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth. |
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In 1215, he became lawspeaker of the Althing, the only public office of the Icelandic commonwealth and a position of high respect. |
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Iceland enjoyed a mostly uninterrupted period of growth in its commonwealth years. |
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Iceland first became a commonwealth before it came under Norwegian rule in the early 13th century. |
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Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. |
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These commonwealths are states, but legally, each is a commonwealth because the term is contained in its constitution. |
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The commonwealth of Puerto Rico allows property to be owned as community property also as do several Native American jurisdictions. |
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Each state's legislative power is inherent, but restrained by the Federal Constitution, State Constitution, and commonwealth powers. |
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Two executions in Kentucky were delayed this year because the commonwealth had but one dose of thiopental sodium for the three murderers who have exhausted their appeals. |
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Major political developments saw the former British Empire lose most of its remaining political power over commonwealth countries. |
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I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it. |
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Jonson's poem is a testimony to this reaffiliation, a cele bration of the Wroths as exemplars of commonwealth identity within local region. |
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It is true that in a commonwealth where false doctrines are by time generally received, the contrary truths may be generally offensive. |
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Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism. |
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Although indoor lawn bowling, also known as carpet bowling, is popular in British commonwealth nations, it is practically unheard of in the United States. |
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Fitch believes that the successful execution of this transaction provides the commonwealth breathing room as it continues to address ongoing economic and fiscal challenges. |
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With all three wealthy provinces pulling together, young Saskatchewanians would become part of the western commonwealth without having to leave home. |
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The boxer Haider Ali won the first ever gold medal for Pakistan in boxing at the commonwealth games in Manchester in 2002 in the featherweight division. |
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