noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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The economic sovereignty which Mrs Thatcher claims to defend is a chimera.
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However, there is a fundamental difference between pooling sovereignty on trade and agriculture and pooling economic sovereignty.
full
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We are on our way to full sovereignty , and there is no turning back.
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Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure.
legal
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In short, the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament.
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Dicey's insistence on distinguishing legal from political sovereignty entails an equivalent separation of law and convention.
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In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions.
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Dicey presents conventions as a means of harmonising legal and political sovereignty , which remain conceptually distinct.
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First, there is legal sovereignty - the legal right to do as we please.
national
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Such interdependency demands certain limitations in national sovereignty .
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Any effective international regulation of nuclear weapons is bound to entail troublesome incursions challenging prerogatives of national sovereignty .
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We in Britain seem to be deeply attached to the idea of national sovereignty .
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However, the national monetary sovereignty identified with an exchange rate union is illusory rather than real.
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There are tricky issues of national sovereignty and private / public relationships but they are not insoluble.
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In addition there are some specific features often of great importance, such as the release of long suppressed aspirations for national sovereignty .
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Or it could lead to higher unemployment, failing businesses and a loss of national sovereignty .
parliamentary
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It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty .
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The threat which this arrangement poses to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is obvious.
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The passion with which the mythology of parliamentary sovereignty is defended ... baffles Paris and Bonn.
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The idea of the separation of powers also seems to influence Dicey's belief that Parliamentary sovereignty favours the supremacy of law.
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The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
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Neither distinction can be sustained when the courts are required to determine the limits of parliamentary sovereignty .
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By virtue of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty , the act would be definitive.
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It precedence derives from the concept of parliamentary sovereignty .
political
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Finance is again king, cemented by romanticism about retaining political sovereignty over the pound and laced with not a little xenophobia.
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Dicey's insistence on distinguishing legal from political sovereignty entails an equivalent separation of law and convention.
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Dicey presents conventions as a means of harmonising legal and political sovereignty , which remain conceptually distinct.
popular
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Here, then, at the opening of the modern era, we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty .
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Basically their nationalism was an ideology closely bound up with the idea of popular sovereignty .
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This is not to say, however, that popular sovereignty requires a nation state.
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Against this background, the muzzling of 16 reformist newspapers can only be seen as an assault on popular sovereignty .
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For they sought to replace tradition by consent and dynastic rule by popular sovereignty .
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But the language of popular sovereignty is by its nature universalist.
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The principle of popular sovereignty has never been accepted in Britain: instead sovereignty is shared between Parliament and an hereditary monarch.
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And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles, namely Pericles himself.
■ NOUN
consumer
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These adjustments, incidentally, portray the concept of consumer sovereignty at work.
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It is the force which subjects producers and resource suppliers to the dictates of buyer or consumer sovereignty .
state
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Previously its goal had been state sovereignty within a reformed Soviet Union.
■ VERB
claim
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It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory.
infringe
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It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics.
lose
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When petrochemicals are privatized, we are going to lose sovereignty .
restore
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They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
share
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It was the first time that 11 nations had agreed to share their monetary sovereignty .
surrender
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Not surprisingly, those who are averse to surrendering their sovereignty have become increasingly restive of late.
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Wouldn't it mean surrendering sovereignty ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the sovereignty of God
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty .
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People talk about the great sanctity of the sovereignty of Parliament.
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The latter is not an open invitation to intervention or a threat to sovereignty .
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The referendum was reported as recording an 87.01 percent turnout and 99.87 percent approval for sovereignty for Kosovo.
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There is the sovereignty of the majority party and its Whips.
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When it comes to interest rates, we would in some ways get more sovereignty .