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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1090 Rodrigo had succeeded in establishing a huge protectorate in the east which he found increasingly hard to maintain.
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Island authorities are keen to take advantage of their position as a self-governing Crown protectorate to attract offshore investment funds.
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The abnormality of these grants in the context of the protectorate is not, however, only a matter of scale.
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The colony plus the protectorate thus came to constitute what is now Sierra Leone.
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The results had been amazing; the protectorate had prospered.
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This makes it unlikely that Edward had sought a protectorate .
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With the advent of independence in 1961, the cultural gap between colony and protectorate suddenly assumed new and larger political significance.