suzerainty

Example Sentences

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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

Although the Florentines professed to regard this suzerainty of the Reali di Napoli as an alliance rather than a subjection,–compagnia e non servitù as Machiavelli puts it–it was an undoubted relief when it ended.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.