sovereign

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“We do now have a history of the Liz Truss moment and…of churn in prime ministers,” said Peter Goves, head of developed market debt sovereign research at MFS Investment Management.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

On the AI server side, Citi was encouraged by comments from cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave and server maker Super Micro Computer, which signaled accelerating AI adoption across enterprises, sovereign clouds, and neoclouds.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

And then, not long afterwards, the King will arrive in Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament, in which the sovereign reads out the government's planned new laws for the year and a bit ahead.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

US officials have floated an arrangement in which the three new military bases would be formally designated as US sovereign territory, according to one source with knowledge of the negotiations.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

This being a direct rather than a representative democracy, membership of the demos, or sovereign body, was by right rather than by election, and every decision was taken on a one-man, one-vote basis.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith