(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.
Ursula
Definition:
(n.) A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(2) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(3) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(4) As Ursula Rakova, an environmental campaigner from the Carteret Islands , puts it: “Our plan is one in which we remain as independent and self-sufficient as possible.
(5) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
(6) Judge Gilbart said: "Ursula Nevin did not go into Manchester city centre – we regard it as wrong in principle that she was made the subject of a custodial sentence."
(7) Ursula Brennan was at her desk in Whitehall early on Sunday morning, thumbing her way through two sets of papers and trying to draw conclusions that may ultimately decide Liam Fox's fate.
(8) In response, Gaiman cited writers including Ursula Le Guin, Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter, Dorothy Parker and E Nesbit, as well as Enid Blyton.
(9) "It makes Lower Saxony more international, more outward looking that we have him," said Ursula Schaub, 60, who had brought her nephew, a first-time voter, to McAllister's penultimate rally in the north-western city of Osnabrück on Wednesday evening.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fallon with German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen.
(11) Under her current defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, the Bundeswehr now has a child-care service and flexible working hours, underlining Merkel’s support for family life.
(12) "Normally an item is adopted by the style leaders, then copied by retailers and trickles down that way, but with Birkenstocks, everyone is wearing the real thing," says Ursula Hudson, footwear course director at the London College of Fashion.
(13) Ursula Andress comes out of our romantic, adolescent dreams rather than the pages of Playboy.
(14) The son of John Henry Thorpe and his wife, Ursula (nee Norton-Griffiths), Thorpe was born in Surrey into a political family.
(15) You can even bring something to your beleaguered colleague Ursula Brennan, as she strives to wrestle down the giant Ministry of Defence.
(16) The novelist Ursula Le Guin has criticised her local paper’s coverage of the militia for “ parroting the meaningless rants of a flock of right-winged loonybirds”.
(17) A German frigate could help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, from which fighter jets are carrying out bombing runs, and tanker aircraft could refuel them mid-air to extend their range, the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week.
(18) Fellow UK author David Mitchell's much-anticipated new novel The Bone Clocks, described in the Guardian review by Ursula K Le Guin as "600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose", missed out on a shortlist place, as did US literary stars Siri Hustvedt and Richard Powers.
(19) The family of John Steinbeck has reversed its decision to oppose Google's controversial plans to digitise millions of books, but a growing chorus of authors led by acclaimed science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin have registered their resistance to the scheme.
(20) The remaining five seats on the board are held by members of the independent co-operatives who own around 22% of the business, including the chair Ursula Lidbetter who runs the Lincolnshire Co-op.