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sovereignty

A country's sovereignty is its ability to create its own laws and control its own area without being influenced by other countries. Hong Kong's sovereignty was transferred to China in 1997. The decision was a blatant attack on national sovereignty. A ruler's sovereignty is their supreme power over everything.

sovereignty

government free from external control the authority of a state to govern another state (= reign) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

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We must pay attention to the fact that no nation claimed sovereignty over this region.
China is an advocate for the Diaoyu Island's sovereignty.

Movie subtitles

I, Richard, King of England bestow upon thee, Berengaria of Navarre the right of sovereignty.
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles o'er his base into the sea and there assume some other horrible form which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness?
Happy were England would this gracious prince. take on himself the sovereignty thereof.
I bring gold, for the sovereignty of our king.
Since he had no diplomatic immunity. for NATO Britain does not recognize our sovereignty.
Then 'tis most like the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
The Government has adopted the only possible position that it could take to defend its sovereignty and that of the other countries involved.
In any case, the attitude of the Ambassador of the USA, as well as the one of the Ambassador from Brazil, has been of understanding and respect towards our sovereignty.
Gold rifles the head of the bashaw in a basket of melons the sovereignty of my people.
In the name of Napoleon, I summon you to renounce the sovereignty over Rome and over the Papal State.
I would learn that, for, by the marks of sovereignty, knowledge and reason, I should be false persuaded I had daughters.
Mainly they're concerned with sovereignty.
Who would have sovereignty over the trains?
So sovereignty's not political?
You're the real proprietors but some country has got to claim sovereignty.
The legend states that if the apes were ever to leave Gibraltar. it would mark the end of British sovereignty.
Sovereignty resides in the people.
This is an unlawful intervention in our sovereignty.
Unfortunately, each state claims sovereignty over any Confederate right to command rolling stock.
I kiss the symbol...of his sovereignty.
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord. or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles over his base into the sea. and there assume some other horrible form. which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness?
Peru's big on territorial sovereignty.
We have no designs upon your sovereignty at all. No none at all.
This incensed them inspired them to seek sovereignty of their own homelands.
Happy were England would this virtuous man take on his Grace the sovereignty thereof.
Because it is an affront to national sovereignty?
Zereteli is ready to do anything to obtain absolute sovereignty.
And to closely guard our independence, and sovereignty that was paid in blood.
Article Three: Sovereignty resides in the people.
My father, King Jarol, has empowered me. to offer a peace between our kingdoms. in exchange for his continued sovereignty. and my sister's freedom.
When the British, with unheard of brutality, invaded Jossing fjord, violating our sovereignty, you did nothing.
I'm afraid it's left them somewhat jittery so they're understandably concerned about insuring the sovereignty of their borders.
Do they still support the sovereignty of that illegitimate whore?
I'm Deputy Consul Burkus of the Monean Maritime Sovereignty.
I've come before you to resolve this attack on our sovereignty now.
We respect the sovereignty of our neighbours.

News and current affairs

Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.
Any resolution - any suggestion of change - will engender new conflicts because of conflicting claims of sovereignty.
However tempting it may be to solve the puzzle by drawing new borders or establishing new entities, this conundrum cannot be resolved in terms of sovereignty.
Was France losing its autonomy, perhaps even its sovereignty?
Yet, the ability of European institutions to accommodate deeper and broader integration is increasingly undermined by the persistence of a contradictory and long-obsolete ideal: the nation-state as the basis of political legitimacy and sovereignty.
That gross imbalance in representation is a shameful betrayal of Ukraine's sovereignty.
There will be Pakistanis who protest against the recent American military action, arguing that it violated Pakistan's sovereignty.
But sovereignty is not an absolute; it involves obligations as well as rights.
Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China - an indirect challenge to India's sovereignty.
For starters, India could rescind its recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, while applying economic pressure through trade, as China has done to Japan and the Philippines when they have challenged its territorial claims.
The Obama administration's contradictory rhetoric - affirming that the US-Japan security treaty covers the Senkakus, while refusing to take a position on the islands' sovereignty - has not helped.
Of course, if the big countries are not willing to sacrifice any measure of national sovereignty for the overall European good, then a united Europe is doomed.
While the decision would have a significant political downside - that is, immediately diluting Scotland's newly acquired sovereignty - its economic implications are mixed.
Given these tensions, it is no surprise that the issue of disputed sovereignty in the South China Sea is almost certain to claim center stage at this month's ASEAN Regional Forum, and at the East Asia summit in Bali that will follow it.
Dusan Prorokovic, Serbia's state secretary for Kosovo, has said that his country might use force to maintain its sovereignty.
By deterring threats to national sovereignty, military power supports peace; and, in Brazil's case, it underpins our country's constructive role in the pursuit of global stability.
But nothing that Obama, or anyone else, says can answer the question now occupying the attention of senior US officials: Will the coming of popular sovereignty to Egypt inevitably lead to anti-Americanism?
It seeks to be finely balanced, respecting the regime's sovereignty while subtly pressing home the point in unison, as neighboring states.
India cannot and will not abandon its territorial sovereignty, or its pursuit of secure land borders or a greater balance in trade.
Finally, the West must rediscover the joys of multilateralism and shared sovereignty.
Over the past few centuries, there have been three systems of international order: economic and military domination; a balance of power; and shared sovereignty.
Europe, where shared sovereignty has been embraced, is struggling to solve its own problems, never mind becoming a global player.
Some system of joint or international sovereignty over Jerusalem's holy places and the division of the city so that it can become the capital of two states.
Was France losing its autonomy, perhaps even its sovereignty? Was it capitulating to American hegemony?
Schroeder came to power seven years ago representing a new generation whose formative experience was not the Cold War, European integration, and transatlantic friendship, but German unification and the restoration of national sovereignty.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic trigger mechanisms that might affect a country's sovereignty.
China also has started questioning Indian sovereignty over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, one-fifth of which it occupied following the Tibet annexation.
The European Parliament deals with the important areas where individual countries have pooled their sovereignty, like trade, the creation of a pan-European market, and the biggest environmental issues.

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