protectorate

Example Sentences

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One more reason to which he alludes: The Jewish state serves as the protectorate of several historical and biblical Christian sites that millions of pilgrims visit each year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Mamdani, a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, is himself a Ugandan Asian, the term used to describe people from British India who had settled in the British protectorate of Uganda.

From The Wall Street Journal

The French-speaking part of the former German protectorate, carved up between France and Britain after World War I, gained independence in 1960, joined a year later by British Cameroon.

From Barron's

In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate.

From BBC

“We are neither a protectorate nor a colony of any foreign nation.”

From Los Angeles Times