Protectorates definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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The regional administration was loosely associated with the central government through a sort of primitive ministry of the interior, and similarly the Chinese representatives in the protectorates, that is to say the foreign states which had submitted to Chinese protective overlordship, were loosely united with a sort of foreign ministry in the central government.

—A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]

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Two protectorates were formed, Northern and Southern Nigeria, and Sir Ralph Moor was appointed High Commissioner of the latter. — Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
He reckons he'll need Congress for more ambitious projects, like health care, and when he goes back to wheedle more bailout billions, given that A.I.G. and G.M. and our other corporate protectorates are burning through our money faster than we can print it and borrow it from the ever-more-alarmed Chinese. — Pawatercooler.com
It should be noted that linguistically and historically - distinct South Ossetia and Abkhazia had been autonomous Russian / Soviet protectorates or regions from early in the 19th century to 1991, when the Georgian government abolished their autonomy. — Dandelion Salad
Webb, quite rightly, asked why the US should do that, and why that's being done in what he called other "protectorates" around the world. — WordPress.com News
Establish protectorates, whereby the region has its own government and is an independent country, but is protected by a larger country. — Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]