Second, the sovereign republics sign a union treaty with the state.

There can be three kinds of ties between the sovereign republics.

"Therefore, it is important now to look for points of interaction with the sovereign republics rather than to panic."

By the 14th century, the town functioned as the capital of a de facto sovereign republic.

It will be a function of the new union of sovereign republics.

It already has its own national flag, left over from its decade as a sovereign republic.

The first clause proclaimed that Burma would be 'an independent sovereign republic'.

Montenegro is an independent and sovereign republic that proclaimed its new constitution on 22 October 2007.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

This winter's challenge may seem new - the center has collapsed and a dozen theoretically sovereign republics must fend for themselves.