Meaning of sovereignty in English
(Definition of sovereignty from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
sovereignty | Intermediate English
Examples of sovereignty
sovereignty
And then it became an attractive policy for many who believe that competition and consumer sovereignty offer incentives for improving teaching and educational results.
From The Atlantic
Increasingly, the struggling economies are facing a loss of sovereignty as well.
From TIME
Meanwhile, new technologies are eroding old assumptions about sovereignty and state autonomy.
From Foreign Policy
To claim a separate and equal status among nations is to make a claim of "sovereignty" in the context of international law.
From Heritage.org
Besides, most international law on the question of sovereignty claims defers to self-determination -- the wishes of the inhabitants.
From Foreign Policy
Totalitarian governments are embracing a growing "cyber sovereignty" movement to further consolidate their power.
From The Atlantic
In the name of cooperative federalism, it undermines state sovereignty.
From ThinkProgress
International legal principles, including respect for a state's sovereignty and the laws of war, impose constraints.
From NPR
Just like in that past era, every single major player today is opposed to genuine reform and popular sovereignty.
From Foreign Policy
Federal immigration law, however, must be honored and enforced, and our border must represent an effective means to help ensure our sovereignty and security.
From Los Angeles Times
This was about freedom, questions of national identity, questions of sovereignty, questions of personal liberty.
From Slate Magazine
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Collocations with sovereignty
sovereignty
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absolute sovereignty
While he might have understood better than many the inherent difficulty of combining absolute sovereignty with mixed constitutionalism, his contemporaries were nevertheless horrified.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
concept of sovereignty
This was a major success because it redefines the concept of sovereignty as a positive concept, putting human beings at the core of security concerns.
consumer sovereignty
By contrast, the criterion of consumer sovereignty is not a direct implication of the principle of normative individualism.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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