1 Switzerland is a heterogeneous confederation of 26 self-governing cantons.

2 The two countries made up a confederation for mutual safety.

3 The Franks were originally a loose confederation of Germanic tribes.

4 The European Builders Confederation has a membership of over 350,000 building companies.

5 The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government.

6 While the confederation is technically illegal, it has been allowed to function openly.

7 Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise.

8 The confederation, on the other hand, was only a fragile union whose members were scattered over vast distances.

9 One abuse that was prevalent during the Confederation was the exercise of judicial power by the state legislatures.

10 Confederation A confederation is an association in which states delegate some power to a supranational central government but retain primary power.

11 As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.

12 the Confederation of British Industry.

13 In 1870, Manitoba entered Confederation as a Canadian province.

14 Confederation differs little from federation.

15 The Articles of Confederation proved a clumsy first effort.

16 The official name of Switzerland is the Swiss Confederation.

17 A constitution was established and the Confederation was born.

18 Whereas the Articles of Confederation promised a “perpetual Union” of states that retained their “sovereignty, freedom, and independence,” the Constitution does not mention sovereignty at all.

19 A survey by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) showed retail sales fell more sharply than expected in August.

20 The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.

21 The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.

22 Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.

23 He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.

24 Rather than a unified central administration, there is a loose confederation of ministries.

25 The exhibition organisers have preferred to explore the social, political and religious mechanisms of the Etruscan confederation of city-states.

26 On April 14 Clinton also secured the unanimous endorsement of the leadership of the AFL-CIO, the country's main labour confederation.

27 A general strike, however, organized on June 19 by the National Confederation Union, attracted little support.

28 To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation,[] the state sovereignties were certainly competent.

29 In fact the constitution of 1787 set out to do the opposite: to bolster the centre and weaken the power the states had briefly enjoyed under the new republic’s Articles of Confederation of 1777.

30 On the morning of June 1, President Hu Jintao met with Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation, at the hotel he stayed.

1 Switzerland is a heterogeneous confederation of 26 self-governing cantons.

2 The two countries made up a confederation for mutual safety.

3 The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.

4 The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation.

5 Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.

6 The Franks were originally a loose confederation of Germanic tribes.

31 At last, detailed implementation of log-based confederation is introduced, including log protocol generation, and node information gathering, indexing and retrieving.

32 General Confederation of Kuwaiti Workers: Kuwait City, f. 1968 ; Vice Chair. - Naser Haizal Ateby.

33 Switzerland is a typical Confederation State in the world. Its administrative division system has some differences from the other countries's with the efforts of the history and the culture.

34 When the Federal Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, our nation was bound by the Articles of Confederation, which began with the words, "We the undersigned delegates."

35 The first U. S. government, established by the Articles of Confederation, was essentially a union of the states.

36 The head of the International Confederation of Wizards is called the Supreme Mugwump .

37 In 1786, an antitax revolt of Massachusetts farmers and tradesmen led to attacks on federal arsenals and showed the weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation.

38 At the invitation of Micheline Calmy-Rey, President and Foreign Minister of the Swiss Confederation, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi paid an official visit to Switzerland from May 4 to 5, 2011.

39 Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary might form a broad, peaceful, unaggressive confederation.

40 Britain's largest business lobbying group, the Confederation of British Industry warned rising British unemployment levels will probably peak toward the end of next year.

41 "It's not obvious to me that EMU could survive without Italy," he told a Confederation of British Industry conference.

42 On February 2, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing met with Swiss Confederation President Moritz Leuenberger in Bern.

43 He held manufacturing-oriented workshops in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

44 Under the first Articles of Confederation, the government relied on voluntary donations from the states.

45 It was written in secret and in violation of the existing one, the Articles of Confederation, at a time when no one knew whether America would survive.

46 Italy has won the European Confederation Cup 12 times since 1981.

47 To do that, the Articles of Confederation had to be scrapped, and a newConstitution adopted that would enable the federal government to raise revenueand service its debts.

48 As with anyone's first try at something, the Articles of Confederation were not perfect.

49 Apart from the extending mountain ranges and the breathtaking beauty of nature, what does Swiss Confederation possess that commands admiration?

50 After a cycle tour of historic, genteel St Andrews town we crossed breathtaking eight-mile-long Confederation Bridge into Prince Edward Island, or PEI.

51 Roman Catholics and workers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions protest the importation of U. S. beef in front of City Hall in Seoul, South Korea.

52 Lee Cheuk-yan, general secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, said: "The strong turnout means that we will raise the temperature in our dealings with the government."

53 Once more Athens flared into importance as the head of a confederation.

54 In con- federation period, he advocated revising "the Articles of confederation" actively, and promoted to hold the constitutional convention.

55 It's the capital of the canton of Geneva, the second - smallest canton in the Swiss Confederation.

56 The states had extraordinary power under the Articles of Confederation.

57 Confederation of British Industry: f . 1965; Pres . - Colin Marshall.

58 Onondaga As one of the original five member nations, the Onondaga were an influential force in the Iroquois Confederation, a league of Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans.http://

59 The delegates still sought a decentralized government but one with more central coordination than granted under the Articles of Confederation.

60 The incompetency of the Articles of Confederation for the management of the affairs of the Union at home and abroad was demonstrated to them by the painful and mortifying experience of every day.

61 The Confederation of British Industry, an employers' body, wants the law changed to make it harder to strike, by requiring at least 40% of union members to vote in a strike ballot for it to be lawful.

62 They had seen with the Articles of Confederation that a stronger central government was needed, but wanted to avoid the tyranny they had just experienced.

63 Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia: Zagreb; f .1990; Pres . - Mladen Mesic.

64 It 's the capital of the canton of Geneva ,[http:///confederation.html] second -smallest canton in the Swiss Confederation .

65 The Confederation of British Industry, the nation's biggest business lobby, predicted this week that the economy will shrink 3.9 percent this year, the most since at least 1948.

66 2003 – Under a new Constitutional Charter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted into a loose confederation of Serbia and Montenegro.

67 It was highlighted by the laying of the cornerstone by the Governor General of the Confederation Building on Wellington Street and the inauguration of the Carillon in the Peace Tower.

68 In 1787, Congress called for a meeting of delegate from all the states to revise the Articles of Confederation.

69 About: Back in World War II, beautiful and richly endowed the Swiss Confederation in biotechnology research have been towards the forefront of the world.

70 The closely watched Confederation of British Industry forecast gross domestic product growth will slow to 0.8% in 2008 and will contract in 2009.

71 S. history. The battle, also known as "Custer's Last Stand, " was part of the Black Hills War against a confederation of Plains Indians, including the Cheyenne and Dakota Sioux.

72 Adding to the gloom, a new report by the Confederation of British Industry shows that this is going to be a rough one economically in Britain with unemployment heading up.

73 "It was notclear, following the American Revolution and Articles of Confederation, that the presidency would work, " saysRutgers Universityhistorian David Greenberg.

74 On September 25 it abolished the pro - Allende Central Labor Confederation.

75 A violent rebellion against taxes had spread alarm throughout the country's leaders and had exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

76 I speak on behalf of all representatives, in the Celestial Systems which form part of the Intergalactic Confederation and who are engaged in this mission, to assist the inhabitants of planet Earth.

77 After the stage of confederation, the Boeotian unification fell into conflicts between the two ways of federation and empire.

78 The Bridge Links the Canadian provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick together, as part of a promise during Confederation back in 1873, hence the name Confederation Bridge.

79 List each province and territoy and tell when each one joined Confederation?

80 According to the Confederation of British Industry Chinese is now second only to French in terms of language skills desired by UK employers.

81 This is due to the fact that a possible investigation will be ruled by the administrative procedures law of Swiss Confederation .

82 The committee produced its Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union in 1776.

83 No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation.

84 Separately, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, began a partial nationwide strike, Wednesday, in solidarity with the beef protesters.

85 In 1867 it became the capital of the newly formed confederation.

86 In 1787, Congress called for a meeting of delegates from all the states to revise the Articles of Confederation.

87 The first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, after all, was a massive failure, and the founders learned from that failure.

88 The Confederation of British Industry has said students should accept higher tuition fees as "inevitable" and pay more interest on their student loans.