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apoliticalregionorlocalgovernmentareain somecountries,especiallyone of the 23politicalregionsinto which Switzerland isdivided (尤指瑞士的)小行政区,州SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUK politics: local government & politics - alderman
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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Towns & regions: parts of countries (Definition ofcantonfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- He is not without weight in the councils of the canton.
- It was a place of three thousand inhabitants—ambitiously denominated souls in the statistical tables—and was exceedingly proud of its title of chief city of the canton.
- Some of the people of Switzerland were persuaded to belong to Austria, but all the people of the free cantons replied that they wished to remain free.
- They include the whole population of the Italian cantons, and part of the French and German.
- This city, and the little canton of which it is the capital, were then in a state of civil war.
Examplesofcantoncanton None of thecantonchiefs or their retainers were recruited locally.From theCambridge English Corpus Secondly, several institutional veto points enabled cantons and interest groups to influence federal policies.From theCambridge English Corpus In the meantime, together with the cantons, the federal government has introduced a model decree for isolation prescriptions.From theCambridge English Corpus Firstly, all responsibilities in the field of social security were initially in the hands of the cantons.From theCambridge English Corpus These result from the fact that advanced medical services offered in the central regions attract patients from neighbouring cantons.From theCambridge English Corpus However, the cantons need to approve these agreements, and thus play an important role in determining the cost of health care provision.From theCambridge English Corpus This procedure clearly favours small and predominantly conservative cantons, while urban agglomerations, regularly strongholds of leftist parties, are underrepresented.From theCambridge English Corpus This non-decision has settled the issue at the federal level, but it is bound to come up again in the cantons.From theCambridge English Corpus This justifies the treatment of the cantons as sovereign units in this analysis.From theCambridge English Corpus Since 1965, legislation has required the cantons and communes to pay supplementary benefits to those whose old-age pensions are insufficient to cover their basic needs.From theCambridge English Corpus It is taught not only as the idiom of a neighbouringcantonbut also as a medium for internal communication between the different language groups.From theCambridge English Corpus Above all, thecantonand its adjacent territory to the south-east constituted an early industrial district that combined several types of work producing textiles.From theCambridge English Corpus Since the customs barriers between the twenty-two cantons had been eliminated, moreover, new connections among remote regions of the country started to emerge.From theCambridge English Corpus The more centralized acantonin fiscal terms, the larger will be the public sector.From theCambridge English Corpus The fault lies with the two chefs decanton.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/canton## |