Example sentences for: federation

How can you use “federation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 17ISO is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies representing 140 countries.

  • The International Chess Federation anointed its first black grandmaster . Maurice Ashley, a 34-year-old Jamaican immigrant to the United States, earned his place among the world's 470 grandmasters through superior tournament play.

  • Gerson didn't return my phone calls, but the assumption that he is responsible for most of the intellectual and historical references in Bush's speeches--such as a tribute to Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers in last week's address--is widespread among conservative insiders.

  • Although he was prime minister during the war in Chechnya (which has more than surface similarities to the war in Kosovo: It was a war against an ethnic minority seeking greater autonomy, a war that Russia could neither win nor negotiate its way out of for two bloody years), Chernomyrdin has yet to take a stand on it or on what the republic's relationship ought to be with the Russian federation.

  • Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first prime minister, reversed his party’s anti-Chinese policy by offering Singapore a place in the Federation.


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