quasi-independence

Despite an estimated 45bn barrels of oil reserves and six trillion cubic metres of gas scattered across the KRG, last month the Turkish energy minister, Taner Yildiz, affirmed that only those exports approved by Baghdad would be accepted - a serious blow to Kurdish quasi-independence.

James Denselow: Beware a U.S. Sponsored Arms Race in the Middle East James Denselow 2010

The problem with trying to offer quasi-independence to Kosovo is that the international community is trying to offer Canandian style multicultural-federal solutions to two 19th century antagonistic tribes.

Kosovo Is NOT Serbia 2008

The Kurds have already achieved quasi-independence and their voting reflected that.

12/21/2005 2005

The Kurds have already achieved quasi-independence and their voting reflected that.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2005

The Kurds have already achieved quasi-independence and their voting reflected that.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Shelouhs, a species of quasi-independence of the Imperial authority, but they usually attach themselves to certain Berber chieftains who protect them, and whose standards they follow.

Travels in Morocco 2003

The people of the region which apartheid knows as KwaZulu were adamantly determined that they would not be manipulated into the kind of quasi-independence which proved possible in places like Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei.

Goals Beyond the Destruction of Apartheid 1986

Yet it was not only the French-Canadian leaders who held out the hope of separate status and quasi-independence.

The Coming Defeat of Canadian Nationalism 1970

There, no doubt from their greater proximity to the centre of Magyar rule, the tie between the petty princes and the Hungarian crown seems to have been closer, and whilst some writers affirm that the Wallachs (or Roumanians, as their countrymen like to call them) enjoyed privileges amounting to a quasi-independence, the Austrian chroniclers maintain that they were mere vassal retainers of the Court of Hungary.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

The Czechish nation increased rapidly in wealth and culture until, having embraced the doctrines of Huss, it felt itself strong enough to assert a quasi-independence.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various