mandated territory
Example Sentences
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The usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any Prime Minister gratuitously offering to return this mandated territory to Germany would swiftly, surely be voted out of office.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had been defeated by air power and sea power, but they were still in physical possession of 2.500,000 or more square miles of Allied and mandated territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
For almost 25 years the French ruled Syria as mandated territory, leaving behind some culture and much hatred.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rabaul stands for the mandated territory of tropical New Guinea, formerly in German possession, and now allocated to the Commonwealth.
From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
