I gathered that some notion of imperial federation was floating in his mind.
As to the first proposal, anybody could see that federation was a vastly more revolutionary operation than the delegation of certain legislative powers to a local parliament.
Receives deputation from the miners' federation on Eight Hours bill.
Here, accordingly, was built the Long House; that is, was organized the federation of the Five Nations.
In January, 1912, this committee submitted a report which embodied a bill for the incorporation of a National Reserve Association, to be made up of a federation of local associations of banks and trust companies.
But it was not until 1887 that the central organisation of the Women’s Liberal Federation was formed, with Mrs. Gladstone as president.
In May 1889 the annual meeting of the Federation was held in London during the sittings, as it chanced, of the Parnell Commission, at which Mrs. Gladstone was a regular attendant.
This grand federation of the terrestrial ball is governed by a general council of elderly married men, "long rows of reverend sires sublime," presided over by a "sire elect shining in peerless grandeur.
They chanted the dangers and difficulties of the oldFederation and the advantages of the new Constitution.
It is being knit together into a stupendous Bell System--a federation of self-governing companies, united by a central company that is the busiest of them all.
The facts and figures with respect to the Colonies have been drawn from official sources as well as from the very valuable Imperial Federation League Journal for June 1886.
The figures in the earlier estimate are taken from the Imperial Federation Journal, June 1886: Those of the later date are supplied by the Army Estimates, and by the courtesy of Lord Lansdowne and his colleagues at the War Office.
The basis of the estimate given is supplied by the statistics of the Federation League Journal, June, 1886.
He has given me just a minute and a half in which to tell what the country expects of this Federation of Young People.
What does the country expect this Federation to do?
It forms a world-wide federation whose lines of communication have not been cut even by the present war.
National states cannot, will not, and ought not, to abate one jot or tittle of their inherent sovereignty and independence, and the experience of history shows that all attempts at international federation or union are pre-doomed to failure.
The Amalgamated Society of Engineers recognised the National Federation of Women Workers as the organisation to take in women munition workers, and the local secretaries were instructed to co-operate with this body wherever a branch exists.
Many women were enrolled in new branches of the National Federation of Women Workers.
Reports of the National Federation of Women Workers.
They came out on strike, and were supported by the National Federation of Women Workers, in conjunction with the Trade Union League and the Anti-Sweating League.
The National Federationof Women Workers decided to call out the women to demand a 10s.
The National Federation is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and to the General Federation of Trade Unions, and insured in this last for strike pay at the rate of 5s.
The National Federation of Women Workers was formed in 1906 for the purpose of organising women in miscellaneous trades not already organised.
Their ways of thinking were irreconcilable; what he regarded as his father's intellectual dishonesty, plus his own open opposition at the federation meeting, brought the conflict to a head at last.
Spence and Jacks were the regular federation attorneys, and Spence was quite close to Pooley and Bivens; but he always professed a near-socialism that captivated his hearers in Labor Day addresses.
The Board of Trade has endorsed the new law, but the state labor federation has played off.
The lanky president of the State Federation twisted his lame leg more comfortably under him, and leaned forward, gesticulating diplomatically.
She spoke at the State Federation of Women's Clubs in favor of our joining the National.
The crafty lawyer made the labor support fairly solid, by promising liberal appointments to the State Federation crowd.
The official organ of the German Federation of Labor had discovered a week earlier that "the socialistic conquests of the revolution can be maintained only if countries competing with German industry adopt similar institutions.
The executive committee of the German Federation of Labor published a declaration regarding "the recent spreading of anonymous handbills summoning laborers to strikes and disorders for political ends.
As the Constitution stands, the Commonwealth appears to be a federation in which the rights of the States are subordinated to those of the Union to a far greater extent than in our own United States.
Has it not already proved that Europe needs one comprehensive union or federation competent to procure and keep for Europe peace through justice?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "federation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
