(1) It goes to the heart of our founding fathers' vision of federation that all voices in all states of Australia be represented and have influence in Australian society.

(2) Intergovernmentalists believe the EU should be a federation of nation states, and the focus of accountability should be national governments.

(3) This federation of Independent churches, now some 30-40 strong, has been successful in the south amongst the unchurched.

(4) Equally, the entire North-East must be treated in all strategic respects as a single, unified entity, a federation within a federation .

(5) The proposed European federation is unprecedented: no democracy has ever merged with another to form such an entity.

(6) Will trade unions within the federation fund international work?

(7) A first step in the federation of Europe

(8) Also, let's not kid ourselves about the roots of Australian nationalism, the fathers of federation and all the rest of it.

(9) Proposals that are not supported by both major political parties across the federation have no hope.

(10) The experts are unable to agree whether the EU is a federation , an international organization or something different.

(11) To have a federation of republics, there has to be a central federal authority, and that in itself can lead to problems.

(12) He was party general secretary in 1991, when Croatia claimed independence from the Yugoslav federation .

(13) Although there have been job cuts in the public sector, public sector unions have become proportionately larger within the union federation .

(14) The international federation has organized regular sports events for organ recipients to advocate organ donation and transplant worldwide.

(15) But by the time of Australian federation , nationalism had undergone a profound transformation.

(16) This interpretation of the motives of the fathers of federation hardened later into an unshakable conviction.

(17) In 1991, Germany gave Croatia and Slovenia the green light to secede from the Yugoslav federation ; civil war soon followed.

(18) The bus workers belong to a federation of 63 unions with a total of more than 17,000 members.

(19) The United States once had to move from a confederation to a federation .

(20) Macedonia, once part of the Yugoslav federation , is now independent.