Sentences with phrase «vassal state»

Cakepung is a male social performance, combination of singing and dancing, done strictly for recreation and amusement, and is found today only in Karangasem Regency and on Lombok, its former vassal state.

Corduene became a vassal state of the Roman Republic in 66 BC and remained allied with the Romans until AD 384.

The Shadow International Trade Secretary this morning reiterated his stance that remaining in the customs union would be bad for Britain and leave it a «vassal state».

He was asked about warnings by prominent Tory backbencher Jacob Rees - Mogg that Britain would be a «vassal state» during the transition period.

Who can deny the fact that it was Comrade Robert Mugabe who created a new and independent Zimbabwe out of the vassal state known as Southern Rhodesia?

Is it not a fact that it is the visionary and strong Leadership of the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah which led the Gold Coast out of the cold and dark rooms of colonialism and walked a vassal state into the light of Independence and statehood with the new name of the Republic of Ghana?

Even the most deliverable of May's stated objectives - a «smooth, orderly Brexit» - is only possible if we pledge to apply the full body of EU law for several years, without any formal say in how those rules are made: the Brexiters» fantasy of a vassal state inside the EU finally made real outside it.

«U.S. global power, as presently conceived by the overwhelming majority of the U.S. establishment, is unsustainable... The empire can no longer raise enough taxes or soldiers, it is increasingly indebted, and key vassal states are no longer reliable... The result is that the empire can no longer pay for enough of the professional troops it needs to fulfill its self - assumed imperial tasks.»

At times they ruled protectorates or vassal states, but they were rulers (or rulers - in - exile).

In Dresden the many kings and grand dukes of the vassal states had gathered to greet the supreme ruler.

We've reached a level of political correctness found in Soviet vassal states at this point.

Not exact matches

Tiglath - pileser (745 - 727) first consolidated his eastern territories before turning west; but in 738 Rezin of Damascus and Menahem of Israel render the tribute of vassals, and other small western states capitulate.

The list of AFT vassals signing onto Journey for Justice's letter such main members of the group as Alliance for Quality Education, which picked up $ 200,000 from the union and its New York State affiliate, NYSUT, in 2013 - 2014 alone.

Of this large force, 200,000 were to be provided by the vassals - Italy, Illyria, the Kingdom of Westphalia, Bavaria, W?rtemberg, Baden, Saxony, the Duchy of Warsaw, and all the remaining states of the Confederation of the Rhine.

In so doing, EPA erroneously views the States as vassals, because «no sovereign can delegate to another the ability to make its laws.