sovereignty
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Gomez said customers in the region have historically placed greater emphasis on sovereignty and control over technology than those in Europe and Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
I can’t say I’ve heard a more forceful assertion of Canadian sovereignty on a record before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The budget is expected to allocate funds towards the major national projects Carney has tagged as crucial to Canadian economic sovereignty, including infrastructure for energy production and critical mineral mining.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The agreement did not settle the question of sovereignty.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Indeed, had not Madison been the most ardent advocate at the Constitutional Convention for a clear assertion of federal sovereignty?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"Lines on maps started to symbolize the limits of political sovereignties rather than the boundless divine promises. This transformed the way that the Bible's descriptions of geographical space were understood."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
But a terrorist organization is by definition a nongovernmental entity that operates along the creases of national sovereignties and international law.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2020
All the most recent states — South Sudan, East Timor, Eritrea — were carved from existing sovereignties in the wake of bitter civil wars.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2015
The new digital sovereignties have begun to clash with conventional nation-states.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2012
Of the 300 odd territorial sovereignties under the Holy Empire only 39 survived, and these were readjusted on the traditional principles of “compensations,” “rectification of frontiers” and “balance of power.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
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The American Civil War
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