the sixteen states

基本解釋

Continental announced Thursday that it will reduce flights in the United States by sixteen percent during the last three months of the year.
大陸航空周四時(shí)宣佈，它將在今年最後的三個(gè)月裡減少在美國百分之十六的航班。
This system was carried out by the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, at least, it was adopted by some government of the sixteen states.
東晉南朝繼承這一制度，至少部分十六國政權(quán)如前燕、後趙採用該制。
The fall of the Western Jin regime and the appearance of the Sixteen States were mainly caused by the change of natural environment in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
東漢末年以來自然環(huán)境變遷是西晉滅亡和十六國割據(jù)侷麪形成的重要原因。

The court struck down what were known as anti-miscegenation laws in the sixteen states that still had them.
And the fans are many. The Nielsen Media Research company shows almost sixteen million people in the United States watch W.W.E.
The sixteen companies make more than twenty percent of the food people eat in the United States.

In Germany, each of the sixteen federal states administers its own prison system and supervises adult and juvenile offenders both in detention centers and in correctional facilities .
UNESCO: Münster Prison Library