Definition of Ministates

1. Noun. (plural of ministate) ¹

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Definition of Ministates

1. ministate [n] - See also: ministate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ministates

miniskirted
miniskirts
miniskis
minislice
minislices
minislump
minislumps
minisode
minisodes
minispectacle
minispectacles
minisphere
minispheres
minispiral
ministate
ministates (current term)
minister
minister-president
minister of finance
minister plenipotentiary
minister without portfolio
ministered
ministerest
ministereth
ministerial
ministerialist
ministerialists
ministerially
ministeries
ministering

Literary usage of Ministates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Middle East and North Africa: The Challenge to Western Security by Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann (1981)
"Should this happen, Israel might find herself protected by a cordon sanitaire of Christian, Alawite, and Druze ministates in northern and western Syria and ..."

2. The Fractured Continent: Latin America in Close-Up by Willard Leon Beaulac (1980)
"A clear possibility, however, is that one or more of those ministates, many of which will have only nominal attributes of sovereignty, will fall under the ..."

3. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"It is not in our interest that the Soviet state collapse into a congeries of bitterly feuding ministates organized around ancient ethnic hatreds. ..."

4. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"European statecraft has granted international standing to suigeneris entities like the Holy See; to ministates like San Marino, Andorra, Liechtenstein, ..."

5. The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard Henry Ullman (1996)
"While the economic viability of an intact Bosnia had by no means been assured, that of the ministates that are likely to emerge is even more problematic. ..."

6. Terrorism and Threats to U. S. Interests in Latin America: Hearing Before edited by Jim Saxton (2001)
"... combination of US policies that have increased drug trafficking while simultaneously undermining the socioeconomic structures of these ministates. ..."

7. Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights by Jemera Rone (2003)
"... administratively combined its garrison towns with the rebel hinterland in each of the ten southern ministates delineated in 1994. ..."

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