Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and Montenegro gave up its statehood to join. |
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As former colonies gained statehood, the practice frequently continued but steadily lost adherents. |
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Their ultimate objective may be securing some form of statehood for them as autonomies or federation components. |
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Lee is perhaps the foremost symbol of Taiwan's aspirations to statehood and international recognition and his visit will be of huge importance. |
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When World War I and the Russian revolution shattered the Habsburg and Russian empires, Ukrainians declared independent statehood. |
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Is nationality or statehood a more profound contemporary concept than tradition? |
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The struggle to achieve statehood for a given nation was the driving force behind nineteenth-century nationalism. |
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It was Michigan's fortune and misfortune to be a center of one such boom and bust cycle at the very time it was achieving statehood. |
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Issues of national identity and statehood shaped attitudes to common defence. |
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In fact, the labour movement was the major driving force in the struggle for statehood and independence. |
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People may eventually give up on sovereign statehood and abandon the institution. |
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Western Province leaders have given the Solomons Island government one year to recognise their statehood, or they will declare independence. |
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Nonetheless, they have nothing to do with chauvinism or nationalism and are based on the centuries old history of Russian statehood. |
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Their aspirations for independent statehood has been consistently frustrated since the days of the Ottoman Empire. |
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There was a time when championing state sovereignty was a progressive idea because the advance of statehood helped destroy empires. |
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Arizona achieved statehood on February 14, 1912 the last of the 48 conterminous United States to be admitted to the union. |
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Would they accept that kind of statehood as the end of the conflict, or would the new state sponsor an irredentist politics and secretly collude in an ongoing terrorist war? |
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Few seem comfortable with their own statehood except as a means of casting a veil of international legitimacy over their own version of power politics. |
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Having strengthened our statehood, we praised the valor of the Kazakh people. |
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Because of his contribution to Czech statehood and his significance in Czech history, he has been given the soubriquet of Father of the Country. |
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During several centuries of common statehood, the Abkhaz, Armenians, Turks, and Ossetians partly preserved their cultural identities, while Albanians were fully assimilated. |
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The history of mead production dates back to the beginnings of Poland's statehood. |
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A crisis of democracy is closely linked with the structural changes of national statehood. |
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A change of government makes no difference to statehood or to the recognition of the state as such. |
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At stake again is the issue of statehood rather than irreconcilable religious differences. |
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Puerto Ricans had the right to a just and balanced process leading to independence, statehood or further growth under the Commonwealth status. |
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The following background is useful to foster an understanding of the development policy perspective on fragile statehood. |
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It notes that the criteria for statehood are still far from clear in contemporary international law. |
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The content of the right was generally equated to a right of independent statehood. |
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The 1950s and 1960s saw many former colonies achieve independence and statehood, as well as the civil rights movement in the United States. |
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The national viewpoint becomes an impediment to the transnational invention of the political and of statehood in the age of globalization. |
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The delegation was pleased and honoured to have been invited to visit Mongolia on the historic occasion of the 800th anniversary of statehood. |
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Reynolds, first of all, does a superb job of contextualizing the episode, of making it clear that during the struggle over statehood violence was everywhere employed. |
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The purpose of the Northwest Ordinance was to answer questions of governance, of how, when, and under what conditions new territories would gain statehood.
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Even before the fighting started, Barzani asked his regional parliament to begin work on a referendum on statehood. |
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More than 10 million Kurds live in Iran and Tehran fears Iraqi Kurdish statehood will encourage unrest among their own Kurds. |
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Ukrainian peasants turned inwards as centralized power broke down, yet their identification with the Ukrainian nation was strengthened as a result of independent statehood. |
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The notions of statehood, community and national allegiances are all held up for examination, and he is especially scathing about the development of the British Empire. |
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Annexed by America in 1898 and granted statehood in 1959, Hawaiians have watched for decades as rich outsiders have swooped in and incinerated cultures. |
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Johnson reckons there should be a special place reserved for Nairn on any new national pantheon built after Scotland regains its proper statehood. |
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In this regard the election of PNP to the governorship is not viewed as a mandate for the promotion of statehood for Puerto Rico as the fifty-first state of the United States. |
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There is no definition that is binding on all the members of the community of nations on the criteria for statehood. |
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With no past record of independent statehood, clan societies, an absence of military forces of their own, and borders arbitrarily drawn to suit apparent Stalinist imperatives, they are the least prepared for independence. |
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All are defined as states by declarative theory of statehood and constitutive theory of statehood. |
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It is much less tractable than that, because it is also about the periodic claim of each side that the other is not a people at all at least not a people deserving sovereign statehood in the Middle East. |
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The lack of clear criteria for statehood encourages numerous secessionist movements and thus threatens peace, stability and the territorial integrity of existing states, also in Europe. |
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Unfortunately key decisions about their future are often taken by leaders and planners whose unshakable respect for the principle of statehood compels them to seek the restoration of the status quo ante. |
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Since the moment when our sempiternal dreams of a restored Ukrainian statehood became flesh and blood, Ukrainian society has undergone striking changes. |
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Once the state's Constitutional Convention had finalized its state constitution, it applied to the US Congress for admission to statehood. |
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The Security Council and the United Nations as a whole still continue to play an important role in establishing and strengthening the statehood of an independent Timor-Leste. |
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While the official LDS movement rejects polygamy, historically they promoted it and only foreswore polygamy in exchange for Utah's statehood. |
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According to declarative theory, an entity's statehood is independent of its recognition by other states. |
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In contrast, recognition is considered a requirement for statehood by the constitutive theory of statehood. |
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Its existence has been seen as proof that all the elements necessary for the growth of Welsh statehood were in place. |
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The Northern Territory of Australia refused statehood in a 1998 referendum. |
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They had not suffered the loss of national statehood as was the case with Poland. |
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Debate exists on the degree to which recognition should be included as a criterion of statehood. |
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The declarative theory of statehood argues that statehood is purely objective and recognition of a state by other states is irrelevant. |
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Many Polish legends are connected with the Vistula and the beginnings of Polish statehood. |
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Slavery played a major part in Oregon's history and even influenced its path to statehood. |
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By the 1830s, Michigan had 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply and qualify for statehood. |
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A Constitutional Convention of Assent, led by Gershom Mott Williams, was held to lead the territory to statehood. |
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Apart from the former Thirteen Colonies only Vermont and Kentucky predate Tennessee's statehood, and neither was ever a federal territory. |
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Congress is under no obligation to admit states, even in those areas whose population expresses a desire for statehood. |
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For statehood to be achieved, it must be approved by Congress and signed by the President. |
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Also, either the Northern Mariana Islands or American Samoa, an unorganized, unincorporated territory, could seek statehood. |
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After settling a dispute with New York, Vermont was admitted to statehood in 1791, formally completing the defined area of New England. |
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Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States. |
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If the Baltic prime ministers and presidents will not meet the Dalai Lama, then their solemn talk about anniversaries, statehood and continuity is just self-indulgent, hypocritical windbaggery. |
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Neither the granting of full statehood to Nagaland, nor the subsequent Shillong Accord, in which the NNC accepted the Indian constitution, diffused the separatist impulse in Nagaland. |
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At the same time, a wide number of rules about statehood, maritime passage, representation and responsibility underlay the Oil Platforms case and was unproblematically presumed as applicable by all parties. |
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This report will do nothing to move us on because it still insists on everything which has been rejected, namely the apparatus of statehood for the EU and further diminution in national powers and vetoes. |
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And in the black hole statehood disappears. |
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Thus, post-colonial Nigeria grappled with the question of statehood in the midst of ethnic fractionalisation. |
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The pattern of settlement of the Canadian prairies began in 1896, when the American prairie states had already achieved statehood. |
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Capital punishment has existed in Tennessee at various times since statehood. |
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The constitutive theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law if, and only if, it is recognised as sovereign by other states. |
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Recognition of the state's claim to independence by other states, enabling it to enter into international agreements, is often important to the establishment of its statehood. |
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Article 3 of the Montevideo Convention declares that political statehood is independent of recognition by other states, and the state is not prohibited from defending itself. |
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Much of the northern antidivision sentiment in 1887 was rooted in the fear that statehood for the southern half alone might doom the north to indefinite territorial status. |
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While most of Western Sahara has been occupied by Morocco, the UN still considers the Western Sahara a territory that needs to express its wishes with respect to statehood. |
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Congress has the power to vote to allow Chapter 9 protection without the need for statehood, but in late 2015 there was very little support in the House for this concept. |
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Senate bill that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia was debated in September, but only two senators attended, and most say the measure is dead. |
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Hemant Soren became the fifth CM of the state after Babulal Marandi, Arjun Munda, Shibu Soren and Madhu Koda in the 13 years since Jharkhand got statehood. |
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Subjugated groups of people may gain self-government through equal participation in the government of the subjugator, or through independent statehood. |
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