suzerainty
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Today, he is the absolute ruler of an impoverished but militarily dangerous nation protected by his own arms and the suzerainty of China.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2018
Iberia, much of Italy, the Low Countries, the Americas from California and Florida to Buenos Aires, the Caribbean and the Philippines were all under his suzerainty.
From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014
Since Norway was at the time under Danish suzerainty, and Finland was a province of Sweden, this made all Scandinavia into the Protestant stronghold it remains to this day.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2014
Facebook’s suzerainty over its platform partners neither makes a lot of friends nor influences people.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2014
In 1571 this colonizer brought Manila under his influence, and induced the native King to accept the suzerainty of the Spanish King.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
Then, during the Cambrian explosion, “The denizens of the seas grew to an inch, then a foot, then a meter, in the form of terrifying fishes that established suzerainties in the depths.”
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
