(n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
(n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthew Fell, the Confederation of British Industry's director for competitive markets, said: "The government has made absolutely the right decision not to adopt the European FTT in the UK.
(2) The NHS Confederation – backed by the British Medical Association and the royal medical colleges – issued a strong warning that healthcare would suffer as a result of the reforms.
(3) The president of the Confederation of British Industry used his opening address to repeatedly make clear that it regards EU membership as being beneficial to the UK economy and warn against ending the principle of free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of benefits.
(4) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
(5) These 40 young women were interviewed by one confederate of each sex.
(6) Subjects were induced to interact with a confederate who in all cases revealed something quite personal about himself.
(7) Nigel Edwards of the NHS Confederation, which represents 95% of the health sector, said that there were now trusts considering "closing down services and selling off" hospital wings.
(8) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
(9) Late last night, al-Ahmar, who is also the head of the Hashid confederation, accused Saleh's troops of not observing the ceasefire.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
(12) Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Without a doubt, the retail sector is having a difficult time.
(13) Students initially expected the confederate to display traits similar to those of a typical former mental patient.
(14) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(15) Organized into same sex dyadic pairs, 64 students (32 male, 32 female) were divided into two groups (high- and low-eye contact) and assigned to either a positive or negative condition defined in terms of the verbal content of the confederate.
(16) Before a cross-party political summit on the local NHS to be held at Stormont this month, a report by the Northern Ireland Confederation – a body that represents 50 health and social care organisations – has warned of additional pressures on the health service.
(17) An earlier version of the article said the Financial Times reported that the Confederation of British Industry had attacked the scheme as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate".
(18) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(19) Now, a European champion for club and country , twice Chelsea’s player of the year, the most expensive signing in Manchester United’s history, and a starter in last summer’s Confederations Cup final here, he might have expected to play a central role four years on.
(20) So in June, Fifa banned the instrument from stadiums for the Confederations Cup.
Federal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
(a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
(a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
(n.) See Federalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Non-essential Federal government services will remain closed until a budget to pay for them has been agreed.
(6) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(7) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(8) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(9) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
(10) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(11) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(12) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
(13) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(14) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(15) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
(16) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(17) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(18) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
(19) Schools that are not in compliance risk losing millions in federal funding.
(20) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.