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Your sovereign is king of Prussia and emperor of Germany.
The beautiful Vasilissa came forward, as bright as a star, bowed to her sovereign, bowed to the honorable guests and danced with her husband, the happy Tsarevitch Ivan.
The Vatican is the world's smallest sovereign state.
Puerto Rico is not a sovereign state.
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Stop it, promise me that from today, you shall be a true sovereign.
This is an independent sovereign state at war.
This is an independent sovereign state.
We don't approve of independent sovereign states.
That means surrender of our sovereign independence.
To protect her loyally until the return of our king and sovereign.. RichardtheLion-Heart.
By what authority do you, John Lackland, Prince of England.. claimtobe crownedthisday, sovereign of the realm.. andasdefenderoftheHolySepulcher, to receive the blessing of the church?
My orders were to protect the frontier, and to teach a wholesome respect for the Sovereign law and His Majesty's forces.
Our Honored Sovereign has nursed the intention to surround himself with men whom he trusts, and his attention has directed itself to you.
Your Highness would become an absolute sovereign.
Tomorrow you go to Ludwigsburg and come back a day later as absolute sovereign.
Absolute sovereign?
Here's a sovereign, my dear.
Richard Roe, I sentence you to six years at hard labor. as prescribed by the laws of our sovereign state.
To our most sovereign great Tsar, the Emperor AIeksandr AIeksandrovich.
Translate that the messengers of sovereign princes are here.
In the meantime, be assured of our warm consideration to your sovereign. and to you, his envoy.
Do you want a Spanish sovereign?
I had a duty to my country and a loyalty to my sovereign.
Your Excellency, there are diverse citizens of this sovereign island. who come before you with complaints.
To protect her loyally until the return of our king and sovereign, Richard the Lion-Heart.
By what authority do you, John Lackland, Prince of England claim to be crowned this day, sovereign of the realm and as defender of the Holy Sepulcher, to receive the blessing of the church?
But I can't believe the intelligent men up North plot to destroy our sovereign rights.
My sovereign is not convinced that Capt. Thorpe risked so much. merely for his own gain.
From the circumstances I've mentioned, my sovereign is forced to infer. that Capt. Thorpe had the approval of Your Majesty. in an overt act of war upon the empire of Spain.
I've helped you, hidden you, saved you, made you sit down at my table. I've broken all the rules and protocols regulating a sovereign's behaviour.
Remember that I am your sovereign's wife. The sovereign's asleep.
In it Sovereign joyfully answers your letter.
Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers, that owe your lives, your faith, your services to this imperial throne.
The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
Let him be punish'd, sovereign. Lest example breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
Good my sovereign, take up the English short, and let them know of what a monarchy you are the head.
Then with the authority vested in me by our sovereign state.
Sovereign of all interior tributary countries adjacent and around in every direction, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Dad, the Russians' on the radio. Sovereign cow.
Here's to the independence of the sovereign state of Alabama.
Good morrow to my sovereign king. and queen. and, princely peers, a happy time of day.
A blessed labor, my most sovereign liege.
News and current affairs
If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
Kosovo would acquire limited independence, with its status rising from a province of a sovereign state to an international subject capable of entering into certain agreements with other states and even joining the UN.
Attracting even a fraction of the assets held by institutional investors, sovereign-wealth funds, and public pension funds could boost development finance substantially.
The notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable.
And there have certainly been numerous such blows in recent months - from Europe's sovereign-debt crisis and Japan's natural disasters to sharply higher oil prices and another setback in the US housing recovery.
Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.
Indeed, the eurozone may require not just an international bailout of banks (as recently in Spain), but also a full sovereign bailout at a time when eurozone and international firewalls are insufficient to the task of backstopping both Spain and Italy.
As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.
It seems clear that the European Central Bank will be forced to buy far greater quantities of eurozone sovereign (junk) bonds.
That may work in the short term, but if sovereign default risks materialize - as my research with Carmen Reinhart suggests is likely - the ECB will in turn have to be recapitalized.
Third, foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds may be keen to keep buying up euros to hedge against risks to the US and their own economies.
If foreign official demand is the real reason behind the euro's strength, the risk is that foreign sovereign euro buyers will eventually flee, just as private investors would, only in a faster and more concentrated way.
But Europe's integration of sovereign states' interests by means of common institutions could also be an example for much of the world.
More fundamentally, monetary unions - in a broader sense - have existed not only within single states, but also in groups of sovereign states, the gold standard being the most notable example in history.
Being a nuclear power provides sovereign states with protection and prestige.
The sovereign-debt crisis is well known.
While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.
So much for the sovereign-debt crisis, which, given its national, regional, and global impact, has been particularly well covered.
Arguably, they must first sort out the sovereign side of the crisis; but it is not clear that most officials even have a comprehensive plan.
Policy asymmetry is greatest for the countries most acutely affected by the sovereign-debt crisis.
The impacts of sharply rising oil prices and ongoing sovereign debt problems in Europe are also very worrisome.
Bolivia's 1988 buyback of close to half of its defaulted sovereign debt, an operation funded by international donors, is a classic example.