(n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
(n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(3) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(4) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(5) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(6) In all iodine-deficient regions such as the GDR, a frequent occurrence of thyroid autonomy with manifestation of hyperthyroidism following iodine contamination has to be taken into account.
(7) Like the doctor who makes a decision to operate without consulting the patient, I’m diminishing your autonomy by undermining it.
(8) These results are discussed in terms of the role of contaminants in the observed synthesis, the "normalcy" of Acetabularia chloroplasts, the synthetic pathways for amino acids in plastids, and the implications of these observations for cell compartmentation and chloroplast autonomy.
(9) Sepah’s officers told him he must quit writing and cease his promotion of Kurdish autonomy or it would be years before he knew freedom again.
(10) Doctors should respect the principle of doing good and doing no harm, but they should also have respect for the patient’s views and choices about their condition and treatment, and respect their autonomy over decisions that affect them directly.
(11) The isolation and characterization of factor-independent mutants allowed the identification of genes involved in growth autonomy.
(12) The shares fell 45% on his watch, with an especially big dip coming after the Autonomy deal was announced.
(13) Prenatal informed consent for sonogram, a primarily autonomy-based indication, should be given the same weight in clinical judgment and practice as the beneficence-based indications listed by the National Institutes of Health consensus panel.
(14) The survey covered factors considered vital to resident education, including operative experience, input into preoperative and postoperative decisions, autonomy, and time demands, and an overall rating (OR) of the educational quality of the rotations.
(15) Childress defends the principle of respect for personal autonomy as one among several important moral principles in biomedical ethics.
(16) Labour has suggested giving Holyrood control of income tax; the Lib Dems support the idea of fiscal autonomy; while the Conservatives say they are committed to "a strengthening of devolution".
(17) HP called in PricewaterhouseCoopers to do a forensic review of Autonomy's historical financial results.
(18) A working seminar elucidated their fears about professional incomes and about increased patient autonomy.
(19) The treatment we propose for the post-partum psychotic crises in a day unit would ease: 1) The preservation of part of the patient's autonomy which would valorise her.
(20) A diminished public respect for physicians, a decrease in professional autonomy, and an increased regulatory presence have led to extensive changes in medical practice in the past 25 years.
Sovereignty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(2) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(3) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(4) On bilateral issues with Australia, Marsudi stressed Indonesia’s sovereignty and said the case in hand was a legal, rather than political situation.
(5) 4.23pm GMT Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) has more on defense secratary Hagel’s warning to Russia that military exercises planned near the border of Ukraine could “lead to miscalculation”: “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative actions,” Hagel told a press conference during a NATO defence meeting in Brussels.
(6) As Margaret Thatcher declared in Bruges in 1988: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” It was never about sovereignty.
(7) We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
(8) In short, a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty."
(9) The dispute over sovereignty has been going on for centuries, and Britain has never been really confident over its claim to the islands.
(10) This is because the prime minister is aiming to transfer sovereignty in the opposite direction – from Brussels back to the UK.
(11) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(12) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(13) Judge Yehia el-Dakroury declared that Egypt’s maritime border would not be redrawn, meaning that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir would remain under Egyptian sovereignty.
(14) Japan has rejected a compromise that would grant Japan sovereignty over the two smallest territories of the Habomai chain and Shikotan, but only after the countries sign a peace treaty.
(15) In 2015, Seagal was included in a proposed blacklist of foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” along with French actor Gérard Depardieu and many Russian artists.
(16) Timerman is in London to argue the historical and legal case for Argentinian sovereignty over the islands.
(17) China’s foreign ministry said: “There is only one China in the world, the mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China and China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will not brook being broken up.
(18) Little blue men: the maritime militias pushing China's claims Read more Tensions between China and the United States are high in the South China Sea , where Beijing has been building islets into military bases and is asserting sovereignty over large parts of the critical waterway.
(19) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(20) I hereby make a special appeal to Ecowas, AU [African Union] and the UN, particularly the security council, to support the government and people of the Gambia in enforcing their will, restore their sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy,” he said.