sovereignty
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On the agenda were topics ranging from cybersecurity at a time of increasing geopolitical risk, to financial crime policy as a national security tool, to digital sovereignty in the tech supply chain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ekerdt estimates most homes hold tens of thousands of things, each with its own meaning, and once you add a spouse’s things into the mix, sovereignty over what stays and what goes gets even murkier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Iran requires ships to obtain authorization before passage, citing security and sovereignty reasons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
In a WSJ interview, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says like-minded countries must work together to ensure sovereignty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Because of the Treaty of Paris, Washington believed the US had sovereignty over the Ohio Country, a belief that was not shared by the people of the Indigenous nations who lived there.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"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
And now the great question is as to the uses of that territory, and the character of the institutions that are to be granted to these new acquisitions soon to become sovereignties.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing sovereignty
The American Civil War
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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Human Geography - Middle School
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