sovereignty
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The agreement rules that out, emphasizing Danish sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as Greenlandic right to self-determination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The US president instead emphasised national sovereignty and "unmatched" American military power.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Even if others were added, we do not have an iota of fear regarding Ethiopia's sovereignty," he told lawmakers in July.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the deal recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenlanders’ right to self-determination.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Otherwise, Enel was violating the Osage’s sovereignty over their underground reservation.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
"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
In “The Economic Consequences of the Peace,” John Maynard Keynes asserted the primacy of economics, observing that “the perils of the future lie not in frontiers and sovereignties but in food, coal and transport.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2015
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
At length, the Seljuk Turks attained to power, after which the empire fell into minor sovereignties, which were brought together at last into the Ottoman Empire.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
Vocabulary lists containing sovereignty
The American Civil War
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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Human Geography - Middle School
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