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Example sentences for "protectorate over"

  • As a result of that conflict the United States acquired Porto Rico and a protectorate over Cuba.

  • During the first period of our Cuban diplomacy the efforts of this government were directed toward preventing the acquisition of the island, or the establishment of a protectorate over it, by Great Britain or France.

  • It would be a mistake, the Foreign Office was notified, to suppose that the German Government had any intention of establishing crown Colonies or of assuming a Protectorate over a territory acquired by a traveller or explorer.

  • At the end of 1883 our Foreign Office decided to accede to the natives' request, and to establish a Protectorate over Kamerun.

  • Another acquisition was made in 1894 by the establishment of a protectorate over Uganda in East Africa.

  • This gave to England a protectorate over Zanzibar, in exchange for which it ceded the island of Helgoland to Germany.

  • On the mainland American power was strengthened by the establishment of a protectorate over Nicaragua in 1916.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    affirmative answer; anywhere else; caught her; comparatively large; convey them; different circumstances; give pleasure; half whisper; its form; make love; one thing; organized bodies; perpetual covenant; protectorate over; rather long; specified time; tablespoon butter; this little; through thick and thin; unstable equilibrium; well knowing; when questioned