trust territory

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Recent Examples of trust territory In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories. Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024 Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty. Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022 Small, remote Pacific island nations such as Palau, a former U.S. trust territory, make up most of the list. Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
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Noun
  • The settlement also adds that Google will not interfere with, restrain or coerce workers in the exercise of their rights.
    Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Smith denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement terms and the settlement was entered with all parties specifically disclaiming any liability.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By implementing regenerative agricultural practices, SRI focuses on enhancing soil health, conserving biodiversity, reducing chemical dependency, and promoting water conservation.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The nonprofit views its cash transfers not as handouts perpetuating a cycle of dependency, but as starting capital that recipients can use to invest in a new life.
    Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday indefinitely suspended a lower court mandate that the government immediately return him to the U.S. to fix the mistake.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • To meet the needs of today’s employers, 75% of whom said in a recent study that their new college hires were unprepared for the job, B.U. leaders saw a mandate to innovate business education.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Within days, over 300 soup kitchens run by Emergency Response Rooms, a network of democracy activists turned volunteer aid workers, were forced to close.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The stage of democracy Artists and arts organizations have a long legacy of persistence and strategic organizing during periods of political and economic upheaval.
    Johanna K. Taylor, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • About a two-hour drive southeast of Bangkok, on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, lies a vast 1.3-million-hectare expanse covering three provinces on which rests the country’s ambition of becoming a regional manufacturing powerhouse.
    Gloria Haraito, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the virus has been detected in sewage samples around the country this year, including in Punjab province, home to around half of Pakistan's children.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Constitutionally, the sovereign has no governmental power in the U.K. or influence on RAVEC, but the Duke of Sussex believes that his father could intervene to ensure such protection is extended.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The sovereign has no governmental power in the U.K. or influence on RAVEC.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.
    Colin Flint, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025

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