sovereignty

"I have always been grateful to the president of the United States for opening a door to progress toward freedom, democracy and true sovereignty," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

I found quite a bit of sovereignty in that, knowing that I truly don’t need anyone else to to be happy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Earlier presidents acquired territory because sovereignty itself delivered things they wanted: minerals, ports, military positions and control over trade routes.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

The defence says the militia group staged an illegal kidnapping when diplomatic negotiations stalled, in a process which showed "an utter disregard for Libyan law and sovereignty."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

In the Soviet Union these include capitalism, God, and the surrender of national sovereignty; in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national sovereignty.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"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

But a terrorist organization is by definition a nongovernmental entity that operates along the creases of national sovereignties and international law.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2020

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

The greater one, however, of there being no tribunal to administer justice between the federal and State sovereignties, remains.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton