7 sentences with 'sovereignty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sovereignty and other words derived from it.
• « I believe that each nation will have to cede a part of its sovereignty to a "higher authority", perhaps under the auspices of the United Nations, to confront, monitor and police ecological problems. »
• « Although the debate over the causes of Rome's fall will probably never have a definitive answer, one important caveat should be made: Rome did not "really" fall for another thousand years, even though the city of Rome itself, along with the western half of the Empire, lost its sovereignty to the invasion of the Germanic "barbarians". »
• « While the Roman Empire in the east remained intact, with taxes going to pay for a robust army that successfully defended Roman sovereignty, Roman armies in the west were underfunded and undermanned and vulnerable. »
• « Although not ethnically Persian, the Turkish rulers embraced this idea of historical sovereignty, seeing themselves as the inheritors of over a thousand years of Persian rule. »
• « It was not until European powers began to break Ottoman sovereignty (a process that began in earnest with a huge Habsburg victory in 1699) that the real decline of the empire became visible. »
• « Spanish nobles came to despise their own kings and asserted their own sovereignty against the claims of the monarchy. »
• « Locke was a great political theorist of the period of the English Civil Wars and the Glorious Revolution, arguing that sovereignty was granted by the people to a government but could be revoked if that government violated the laws and traditions of the country. »