sovereign

Example Sentences

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Soaring yields on long-dated Japanese government bonds helped push sovereign bond prices down across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal

The BOJ is scheduled to make outright purchases today of four sectors of the market such as sovereign securities with tenors of more than 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal

He insisted that the U.S. needed to annex Greenland for its own security and that of the wider Western Hemisphere and initially sought to pressure Denmark, the Arctic island’s sovereign authority, to sell it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Specifically, it targets trade and investment measures by countries who are seen to interfere in the "legitimate, sovereign choices" of the EU or its member states.

From BBC

The EU defines coercion as a third country "applying –- or threatening to apply -– measures affecting trade or investment", thereby interfering "with the legitimate sovereign choices" of the EU and member states.

From Barron's