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Example sentences for: commonwealth

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With the passage of the Single Audit Act in 1984, the Commonwealth of Virginia had to produce and have audited Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) for the first time.
In 1993 and 1998, support was evenly divided between commonwealth status and pursuit of statehood.
You remark on the implausibility of Matthew McConaughey eating Cracker Jack in the Costa Rican jungle; that whole sequence takes place in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which, when I last checked, was a commonwealth of the United States.
The 1500s were a time of prosperity, power, and cultural and scientific achievement for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
As a commonwealth , Puerto Rico is subject to all federal laws, and the U.S. Congress reserves the right to repeal any locally enacted legislation.