sovereignty
IPA: sˈɑvrʌnti
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) The quality or state of being sovereign.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
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Examples of "sovereignty" in Sentences
- Sovereignty is an attribute of the state.
- The sovereignty of Iraq was not the issue.
- She is the guarantor of national sovereignty.
- The sovereignty acquit the slave of his sins.
- Popular sovereignty was to the basis of the Estonia.
- Moreover, the 'kokutai' was the basis of the sovereignty.
- It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual.
- The sovereignty of the sultanate was transferred to the parliament.
- Parliamentary Sovereignty is the bedrock of the Westminster Tradition.
- What's your sense of this term sovereignty and how it relates to food?
- For example, the sovereignty of the United Kingdom belongs to the Crown.
- The term sovereignty is familiar to many from anti-colonial movements for national liberation.
- Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue stars a woman who takes five husbands for their sex and wealth, and seeks to gain "sovereignty" over them sexually.
- Food sovereignty is the right of a people to define their own food and agricultural systems, premised on growing domestically for domestic consumption.
- Manoj Baruah of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad said the term sovereignty should not be the hurdle for peace talks and the process should start soon.
- But he takes nationalism, or what he calls sovereignty, to be all or nothing, excluding the possibility that we might enforce international standards of human rights without eliminating the United States and bringing on swarms of black helicopters.
- The leader's long experience with the party and the 20-year history notwithstanding, Quebec-based journalists questioned him on what good his party does in the national capital, and about his omission of the word "sovereignty" in his new campaign slogan.
- At the revolution the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but _they are sovereigns without subjects_ (unless the African slaves among us may be so called), and have none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America _are equal as fellow-citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty_. "
- To which General Valencia replied: – That a correspondent reward should follow an heroic action, nothing more natural; but to remunerate a service which does not go beyond the sphere of ordinary things, such as mine in the affair of the 15th to the 26th of July of 1840, by such a noble distinction as the sword of honour with which your Excellency has deigned to gird me, in the name of the National Congress, of this the magnanimity of the sovereignty is alone capable; and so it is that I remain annihilated by a present worthy of the ages of the Roman Senate and Republic.