| As former colonies gained statehood, the practice frequently continued but steadily lost adherents. |
| People may eventually give up on sovereign statehood and abandon the institution. |
| Lee is perhaps the foremost symbol of Taiwan's aspirations to statehood and international recognition and his visit will be of huge importance. |
| Western Province leaders have given the Solomons Island government one year to recognise their statehood, or they will declare independence. |
| The struggle to achieve statehood for a given nation was the driving force behind nineteenth-century nationalism. |
| Their ultimate objective may be securing some form of statehood for them as autonomies or federation components. |
