In practice, the protectorate will probably have to continue for quite a bit longer.
In 1939, the German army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
In 1883, under the terms of the Treaty of Hue, France assumed the protectorate over Annam and Tonkin in what is now Vietnam.
In 1946, Britain recognised the independence of the protectorate of Transjordan.
Mr Bancoult's lawyers argue that the protectorate's governor enacted it illegally.
The attack on the village was in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
In 1964, the Nyasaland Protectorate became the independent state of Malawi.
In 1970, the British protectorate of Tonga became independent within the Commonwealth.
In Kosovo, in particular, the international protectorate's claim to be fashioning a law-governed, multi-ethnic state is wearing thin.
Inevitably, there is an element of improvisation about the policing of the international protectorate that Kosovo is becoming.
Certainly, the leaders should use the opportunity to hammer out once and for all how the international protectorate will work.
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Running the place almost as a protectorate, it has the power to act.
The Shi'ite holy city of Najaf is also veering toward becoming a protectorate of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
What Abe and his group have not thought enough about it is essential contradiction and dysfunction of a Japan that wants to turn the page and continuation of the U.S.-Japan security alliance in which Japan remains a less than sovereign and independent protectorate of the United States.
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Some say that Greece has become a protectorate of the EU. Certainly the intervention from outside in Greece's internal affairs is unprecedented.
Western aid donors, peace promoters and generals have virtually turned the country into a protectorate, with several thousand expatriates doing duty as a civil service and legislature.
The Sulu Sultanate once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo, and claimed Sabah as its own before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
It formed part of the Sulu Sultanate - which once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo - before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
The village the Filipinos were occupying formed part of the Sulu Sultanate - which once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo - before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
Many see Greece as little more than a protectorate of the EU. It is widely believed that the purpose of the bailout was less about helping Greece and more about saving the euro and protecting international banks from a default.
At the time of the younger Mr. Kim's public debut in September 2010, his father announced appointments for three of his contemporaries his sister Kim Kyong Hui, her husband, Jang Song Thaek, and a trusted general Ri Yong Ho as a kind of protectorate around the son.
For the Royal Ballet of Cambodia, the complications were compounded by its country's French protectorate status, which from the late-19th to the middle of the 20th century resulted in a reduction of support for the courtly art.
With Kosovo now a western protectorate, Serbia is the only Balkan country that sets its face against the new pattern, preferring friendship with Russia.
After the talks broke down and NATO launched its air campaign against Serbia that resulted in Kosovo becoming a UN protectorate, Mr Rugova reasserted his authority within the province and officially became president in 2002.
This applies particularly to Kosovo, part of Serbia in law, but in practice an international protectorate, with many ethnic Albanians straining at the lead for independence.
In 1963, Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890, became an independent state within the Commonwealth.
He has also lodged some 18 objections to the autonomy plan that would in effect turn Kosovo into an international protectorate.
In Asia, the great tiger the U.S. may one day be riding is its protectorate of Taiwan, should China give fire to aggressive intimations.
But he is concerned that if international and eurozone partners continue to make such severe demands, the debt-ridden nation will transform into a "mafia-ridden" protectorate.
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