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    protectorate


    1. his country a protectorate of the United


    2. The Hold Protectorate performed the ceremony amid Tarak’s faithful warriors


    3. Once in the Protectorate proper we were accorded a warm reception, for the villages had just heard of Prempeh's capture, and as we passed through, the women danced and shouted, clapping their hands in transports of joy at the Ashanti king's overthrow, and various offerings of palm wine, fou-fou and plantains were always ready


    4. The simplest way to prevent other imperialists' conquest would be to make the Philippines a protectorate


    5. All these potential conquests may be avoided if Bryan appoints an able cabinet with even a single member, or a general or admiral, that pushes him to make the Philippines an American protectorate


    6. Again, US protectorate and navy bases could stop that and still leave both nations independent


    7. Abram did seem to lead his people south toward a land that was probably under some kind of protectorate status from another great power, Egypt


    8. Egyptian traders regularly moved through the lands that were subject to an Egyptian protectorate status buying what was offered


    9. The fanaticism of the caliph Hakim destroyed the church of the Sepulchre and ended the Frankish protectorate (1010); [it was not only a question of Muslim intolerance] and the patronage of the Holy Places, a source of strife between the Greek and Latin


    10. In Egypt there followed serious revolts in the urban and rural areas in 1919-20, which resulted in the British surrender of the protectorate over Egypt

    11. They would retreat to the Maronite region where international law prevented the Ottoman forces from chasing these bandits or meddling in any way, as Lebanon was a European protectorate at the time


    12. calm from his protectorate


    13. An Anglo-French protectorate would be the ideal form of moral and material support


    14. The experience of Dual Controls and similar combinations has been so unfortunate in the past that the suggestion of a Triple Protectorate may well appear at first sight monstrous even to unprejudiced minds


    15. At the airport I was met by Sergeant Major Christopher Niles of the Pacific Protectorate, another underground dissenting group


    16. This island group covers a surface area of 370 square leagues, and it's made up of some sixty subgroups, among which we noted the Gambier group, which is a French protectorate


    17. The Moroccans put up a fight, but by 1912 Morocco was officially divided into a French and a Spanish protectorate


    18. Egypt became a British protectorate (which means ‘not strictly a colony but it is really’) in 1914


    19. Here vast forests and jungle scrub extend everywhere, though the trees are being rapidly cut down by the numerous Chinese tin-miners in the settlement; and here also is the capital of the Federated Malay States, whose petty rulers within recent years have united their forces under a British Protectorate


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    Synonyms for "protectorate"

    associated state protectorate territory settlement colony dependency

    "protectorate" definitions

    a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty