Example sentences for: protectorate

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

  • Ceuta, the Spanish protectorate on the North African coast, has special tax status and alcohol, for example, is vastly cheaper there than mainland Spain.

  • The paper, which serves as a lifeline for dispossessed Kosovars, is lukewarm on the KLA and favors the establishment of an international protectorate.

  • In 1888, Sarawak, Brunei, and what is now Sabah were at last grouped together as a British protectorate, North Borneo, but it did not gain the status of a crown colony.

  • Once Clinton ruled out an "enclave," anonymous senior administration officials came up with a new phrase for the NATO-guarded territory to which the Kosovars would return: an "international protectorate."

  • Instead, it seems about to inherit a long-term 100 per cent Albanian protectorate, ethnically cleansed by the victims of ethnic cleansing, who can be as cruel as their former tormentors when given a chance."


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