sovereignty
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Greenland’s government has also welcomed the security agreement while emphasizing that sovereignty remains intact.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 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
The governments of Greenland and Denmark, which has sovereignty over the island, confirmed they would sign the agreement during the United Nations General Assembly next week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
For the UK there is also a vital argument about data sovereignty, and avoiding total reliance on either the US or other countries for the IT infrastructure underpinning large swathes of our service economy.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Legalistic debates over federal versus state sovereignty were just the most accessible handles to grab, the safest and most politically suitable ways to talk about alternative national visions.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
"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
Italy was for the first time divided into a number of petty sovereignties, unconnected by any system of general union, except the nominal allegiance still due to the Emperor.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
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The American Civil War
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Human Geography - Middle School
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