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- noun Plural form of
confederation .
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Examples
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About 20 years ago, the writer John Naisbitt was dead-on with the prediction that large enterprises are evolving into what he called confederations of entrepreneurs.
BriefingsDirect Transcripts Carlton Vogt 2009
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Fifa said a meeting of the confederations will take place in the autumn to discuss the proposal for a 17-match international season.
Ken Bates faces parliamentary probe into Leeds ownership saga 2011
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Fifa said a meeting of the confederations will take place in the autumn to discuss the proposal for a 17-match international season.
Ken Bates faces parliamentary probe into Leeds ownership saga 2011
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"Fifa is involving the clubs through the federations and confederations but when it gets to the executive committee it is already decided."
Ken Bates faces parliamentary probe into Leeds ownership saga 2011
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Some of the sixteen "provinces" were "true political units," while others were "loose confederations of autonomous communities, as well as groups of independent and mutually hostile states whose ruling families had a common lineage."
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Some of the larger tribal confederations, made up of numerous tribes aligned for purposes of war, spanned the entire Arabian Peninsula.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Platini, the Uefa president, will restore order to the quasi-papal state and probably strengthen Europe's influence at the expense of the more remote from Zurich confederations, which have been used as a power base by Blatter.
Greed of Fifa's cronies is putting the World Cup in peril | Paul Hayward 2011
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"Fifa is involving the clubs through the federations and confederations but when it gets to the executive committee it is already decided."
Ken Bates faces parliamentary probe into Leeds ownership saga 2011
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He studied all the tribal divisions in Iraq, from the overarching confederations to the smallest unit of five generations in one family.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Yemen's Tribal Alliance will group together one of the most powerful tribal confederations, the Hashid, and a number of tribes from the country's largest tribal confederation, the Bakil.
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