I. noun
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an independent/sovereign nation (= one that rules itself, rather than being run by another country )
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Countries that were once colonies of Britain are now independent nations.
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Britain was concerned that its sovereignty and cultural identity would be harmed by the treaty.
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Each sovereign speaks with a single voice, though not in harmony with other sovereigns.
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In one of the tales of the Arabian Nights the sovereign has the uncanny experience of meeting himself.
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The Court of Appeal held that the rent payable was £1,900 rather than the realisable value of 1,900 gold sovereigns.
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The original sovereign continued to be struck until 1603, when James I ascended the throne, but was revived in 1817.
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The shield, however, is that of Anne, last sovereign of the House of Stuart, who died in 1714.
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This aid was interpreted as a product of the treaty of alliance concluded between the two sovereigns in 1303.
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Wages were paid in gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns.
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Yet in most cases regional custom was the surest defence against the aggression of neighbours, immediate lords or sovereigns.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
body
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On March 11 it voted to proclaim itself a sovereign body whose decisions would be binding and not subject to government authority.
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Yet the High Authority was far from being a sovereign body .
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It was the sovereign body , and it was composed of all the citizens.
government
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As with sovereign governments many of these state enterprises will not directly earn foreign exchange.
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His spokesman said, however, that two sovereign governments would be maintained under any arrangement.
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Banks also make other currency advances to traders, multinational corporations and sovereign governments .
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The same is true with arrangements made to delegate authority which can be retrieved at the will of the sovereign government .
nation
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The possibility of resistance lay in an appeal to the sovereign nation in the form of the mob.
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Every sovereign nation has the right and the duty to control its borders.
power
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Ultimately, an effective greenhouse treaty will need the voluntary co-operation of sovereign powers .
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The exhibition begins in the Dark Ages with early king-making ceremonies and symbols of sovereign power .
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The Zuwaya image seems correct: there was no internal sovereign power , at any rate up to about 1875 or so.
right
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A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other....
state
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Any solution would have to involve explicit negotiation between sovereign states , culminating in an international treaty.
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In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states .
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Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas.
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If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state .
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At last, the three countries are negotiating as fully sovereign states .
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Speedier communications and the existence of more sovereign states and international bodies have swollen diplomatic records.
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Towns have grown, universities have been built, sovereign states recognised, and populations increased.
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That is, it must be recognised as sovereign by the governments of other sovereign states .
status
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Once the reality of some degree of uncompetitiveness in markets is acknowledged the consumer's sovereign status is inevitably diminished.
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For the accord of sovereign status only made sense within a framework of law.
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A state must have sovereign status ascribed to it by those capable of conferring it.
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It was a number of years before Canada was accepted by the world as a sovereign state.
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the sovereign authority of the Supreme Court
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The Hopi tribe asserted their rights as a sovereign nation.
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The U.S. said it could not negotiate on behalf of other sovereign states.
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We fully recognize France's sovereign power in that area.
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Banks also make other currency advances to traders, multinational corporations and sovereign governments.
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Decolonization was associated with the spread of ideologies of national self-determination and ultimately the near-universality of the sovereign nation-state.
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Hence parliament is not fully sovereign but is subordinate to the constitution and the values enshrined by it.
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New agencies and new officials were created to discharge political and economic duties formerly assigned to the sovereign courts.
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The sovereign courts' traditional preeminence within the government was vanishing too.
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The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia saw its dismemberment and division into more than 300 individual and sovereign states and principalities.
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The government, however, refused to countenance demands for a sovereign national conference.
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They enthroned Bao Dai as a sovereign emperor but continued to run his regime.