"sovereignty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Until 2008 the British position remained the same that China held suzerainty over Tibet but not sovereignty.
- While he was in hiding, the city held sovereignty over East Frisia, and collected taxes.
- In international law, a concession is a territory within a country that is administered by an entity other than the state which holds sovereignty over it.
- Brahimi, satisfied, is compromising on the makeup of the group assigned to hold sovereignty (like a hot potato) until elections early next year.
- Under that doctrine, the king, and by extension his entire government, held unlimited sovereignty over its subjects.
- Subjects of the Empire who were given a princely title by an Emperor, but who held no territory or sovereignty at all.
- At the same time, however, there was also a dispute with the Electorate of Trier over who held sovereignty.
- To understand why, one has to look at the polemic that took place during 1587 about the question who held sovereignty.
- The Holy See holds sovereignty over the state of Vatican City and maintains diplomatic relations with 180 other states.
- A legitimate fount of honour is a person or entity who held sovereignty when the order was established.
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