(a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
(a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
(a.) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
(n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
(n.) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study had for objective to detect the psychological morbidity of 176 non-consulting primiparas in the region of Liege using both the PSE and a sociological questionnaire.
(2) From January 1976 to June 1984, 308 necropsies were performed on neonates and fetuses of various gestational age, mainly coming from hospitals of the province of Liege.
(3) Radio 2 listeners recently voted Liege and Lief the most influential folk album ever.
(4) So Thursday night's "people's festival" in Ghent, a large street party in honour of eight government-free months, with its spoof world championship ceremony, was accompanied by stunts in Brussels and Antwerp, Leuven and Liege in what turned into a Red Nose day aimed at shaming a cynical political elite.
(5) Its designer, Kenjiro Sano, asked that his logo be withdrawn, weeks after a Belgian designer, Olivier Debie, accused him of drawing heavily on own motif for the Theatre de Liege .
(6) Osborne: We haven't got a legacy to stand on … Lansley: I am happy to announce, my liege, that the NHS is now officially a joke … Cameron: Brilliant, Adrian.
(7) Oldham is better known, of course, as that bearded liege lord of modern folk, Bonnie Prince Billy , and when Olsen joined his touring band in 2010 she was at the very other end of the musicians' ladder, an aspirant on the Chicago indie scene who'd not yet done a paid gig.
(8) When Porto signed Mangala from Standard Liege in August 2011, they bought 90% of his economic rights, not 100%.
(9) Updated at 4.44pm GMT 4.43pm GMT "I'm very happy to be sitting next to Leo as well..." Leonardo chuckles and says "Thank you my liege."
(10) After taking a second look at a treatment that was common in 1933 for victims of cluster headaches, a doctor from Lieges, Belgium, is now training anesthesiologists in the technique of alcoholization of the sphenopalatine ganglion.
(11) He bought and sold stakes in Standard Liege, Charleroi and Nice before deciding he wanted to own a British club, picking up Portsmouth for £5m in 1998.
(12) Although closely related (r = 0.68), the use of these two parameters in a single scale, the Glasgow-Liege scale, improves the precision of prognosis, especially for those head trauma patients with initial and complete loss of consciousness.
(13) But the Duke has for six decades honoured his own vow on that day to be "your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship", and he wasn't going to let her down now.
(15) The 29-year-old DR Congo international, four times a Belgian league champion across his spells with Standard Liege and Anderlecht, will move to Carrow Road pending the approval of a work permit.
(16) The complete pedigree indicates that Hb D-Los Angeles was already present in Liege province in the 18th century.
(17) Fellaini cost around €19m (£16m at the present rate) with add-ons when Moyes bought the Belgian midfielder to Everton from Standard Liege in 2008.
(18) The author complemented the AMDP-4 scale by some somatic items from the Liege psychiatric record, the code of Devroye, Pinchard and Timsit.
(19) The phenotypes of C3 and of Tf were determined in 818 and 576, respectively, unrelated individuals living in Liege.
(20) Eighty nine patients with hypoxic chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) were enrolled into the 1 year Vectarion International Multicentre Study-VIMS in 4 centres, Sheffield (UK), and Antwerp, Liege and Namur (Belgium).
Sovereign
Definition:
(a.) Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
(a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
(a.) Princely; royal.
(a.) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
(a.) Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
(n.) The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
(n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
(n.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(2) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
(3) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(4) "It is pointless to think sovereign bond rates could be brought down for an extended period of time by outside interventions," said Draghi.
(5) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
(6) Updated at 1.43pm BST 1.10pm BST Portugal's 10-year sovereign bonds ended last month at their strongest level since the country was bailed out in May 2011, a sign that investors may be a little more confident about its prospects.
(7) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
(8) He arrived in 1998 when a boat carrying asylum seekers bound for Italy foundered off the coast; he and others were rescued and brought to a second British sovereign base on Cyprus, Akrotiri.
(9) Steinbrück is also right to accuse Merkel the of not having communicated the real nature of the European crisis: she continues to talk about a sovereign debt crisis even though, apart from Greece, the real macro-economic instability originated in the private sector.
(10) "As others, we have been surprised on the upside on the growth performance so far this year on the UK" said Moritz Kraemer, S&P's head of sovereign ratings for Europe."
(11) But when weapons are flowing from the borders of a sovereign state, it is very clear where the blame lies.
(12) We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government – and you got the job done.
(13) But Abbott said “operation sovereign borders” – aimed at “stopping the boats” would start as soon as the new government was sworn in on Wednesday.
(14) Finally and most crucially, Team Obama would have to convince the Israelis that a strong Lebanese army under the control of a democratically elected government is far better than Hezbollah armed to the teeth, given all the domestic and historical limitations that govern the army's use of offensive force – and that finally allowing such an army to be formed, withdrawing from all the remaining occupied territory in south Lebanon and ending its air force's illegal flyovers would actually improve Israel's security in the long run by encouraging the construction of a truly stable, sovereign neighbour.
(15) Tsipras also emphasised that Greece is a “sovereign country with an irrevocable right to conduct a multi-faceted foreign policy”.
(16) "The downgrade of the UK's sovereign ratings primarily reflects a weaker economic and fiscal outlook and hence the upward revision to Fitch's medium-term projections for UK budget deficits and government debt," it said.
(17) The implementation of sorely needed structural reforms is now an important step to take in order to solve the sovereign debt crisis and achieve faster and more sustained growth in EU member states.
(18) The response from the SPD opposition was harsh and noted that the government's gradual approach had led to a dramatic intensification of the sovereign debt crisis.
(19) He stressed, however, that Ukraine would remain a sovereign and united entity, under the terms of a peace deal agreed in Minsk last Friday.
(20) That’s why a simple PowerPoint presentation becomes Operation Sovereign Borders.