mariana islands in English

noun
1
a group of islands in the western Pacific comprising Guam and the Northern Marianas. In 1975, the Northern Marianas voted to establish a commonwealth in union with the US and became self-governing three years later.

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1. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Super Typhoon Pongsona (DR-1447) (Report).

2. This is a partial list of football clubs in the Northern Mariana Islands.

3. In June, the 5th Fleet was busy with the assault on the Mariana Islands.

4. Operation Forager, the assault on the Mariana Islands, was planned as a two-pronged thrust.

5. Reefs, islands, and the ocean around the Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll and Rose Atoll will be covered.Sentencedict

6. The light cruiser then loaded fuel, ammunition and supplies in preparation for "Operation Forager", the planned liberation of the Mariana Islands.

7. Cockfighting also is illegal in the District of Columbia, but remains legal in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S

8. The force then sailed northwest to the Mariana Islands for strikes on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, encountering heavy aerial resistance there on 21–22 February.

9. In 1976, Congress approved the mutually negotiated Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in Political Union with the United States.

10. Following one more air strike on 28 July, heavy rain squalls and poor weather canceled further strikes and the task group turned for the Mariana Islands.

11. In December 2004, the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives voted 15-0 with 1 abstention in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

12. The President appoints a United States Attorney to each of the 94 federal districts (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are separate districts but share a United States Attorney)

13. Gazetteer Western Pacific: Moluccas and Philippines to Timor, north to the Mariana Islands, south to Rowley Shoals and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia. Range extends to Pitcairn (Ref. 97.

14. December 19 After being hit in a Japanese air raid, a B-29 Superfortress explodes in ball of fire, while crewmen of the US air base try to fight the inferno on Saipan, Mariana Islands.