quasi-state

But somehow the Kurds' quasi-state keeps on going and in some ways is getting stronger.

In Kosovo - after 10 years of state building efforts - the outcome today is a quasi-state with good change to become next ?

However, if they have to run a quasi-state they may actually have to be more responsible and start negotiations.

The loss by Brazil has resulted in a quasi-state of emergency in the soccer-crazed nation.

First, the British and American zones were combined into the quasi-state of Bizonia.

One pre-emptive war against the dictator of a desert quasi-state crippled by international sanctions has stretched the American military thin.

Dostum joined Massoud's forces, then switched to Hekmatyar, then went back north to set up his own quasi-state.

Nonetheless, the nascent quasi-state of "Kurdistan," a dream of Kurdish people for 75 years, is inexorably taking shape.

The latter tribe, under Marbod, formed a quasi-state with a huge army and was able to conquer the Lugii tribal association among others.

The Qasimid state has been characterized as a "quasi-state" with an inherent tension between tribes and government, and between tribal culture and learned Islamic morality.

The professor, Peter R. Hofstatter, wrote: "Hitler and the National Socialist state had declared a quasi-state of war on the Jews.

While it is true that there are no proposals to grant independence to this new political entity, this new quasi-state is supposed to have its own national anthem, flag and mini army.

In this quasi-state of being half-in and half-out of hyperspace the ship is drawn along the interface to the nearest gravity well on the outbound vector, the destination jump-point.

Montenegro's limbo as a quasi-state - an independently minded part of Yugoslavia - has meant that it cannot get direct aid from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund.

If we are to say that the European Union can go thus far, but cannot manage any further, that has to be said after we have seen just what this quasi-State is capable of.

The Quasi-State Trying to Ease Fears of Neighbors Like everyone in an official position, Mr. Barzani goes to great lengths to insist that "Kurdistan" is not a secessionist state.

They will be dealing with a government backed by a broad spectrum of opinion that opinion polls indicate accepts the inevitablity of a limited Palestinian quasi-state in most of the West Bank and Gaza.

Similarly, the chaos in Iraq should come as no surprise to anyone with knowledge of Iraq, a quasi-state of tribes, religions, sects, ethnicities and foreign interests carved from the carcass of the Ottoman Empire.

Instead, in accordance with the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it became the Free City of Danzig, an independent quasi-state under the auspices of the League of Nations with its external affairs largely under Polish control.

He openly opposed Mate Boban and the creation of a Croatian quasi-state of "Herzeg-Bosnia", because he saw this as the same thing that the Chetniks were doing in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From 1968 on, the PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other Palestinian groups established a quasi-state in southern Lebanon, using it as a base for raids on civilian targets in northern Israel, as well as worldwide terror attacks on Israeli and other targets.