(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.
Tyranny
Definition:
(n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
(n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
(n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
(2) But within a few kilometres of these monuments to tyranny stand symbols of renewal – rows of solar panels bringing stable electricity to the homes of local people for the first time – and with them the chance of improving their lives.
(3) Hitchens responded to counter-examples of secular tyranny in the Soviet Union and China by saying: It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists.
(4) Toynbee then claims that "league table tyranny" will increasingly sideline non-core subjects.
(5) The regime in Eritrea is, in short, a secretive, reclusive, authoritarian tyranny, which is ruthlessly controlled by president Afewerki.
(6) Before in Russia everybody had a gun and then the communists came and took them away and we had tyranny.
(7) Of course some writers can't wait to have a tyranny to work on.
(8) The way things are happening, it’s hard not to conclude that there is amount of dictatorship, there is an amount of tyranny, there is an amount of authoritarianism,” he told the Guardian in the capital, Harare.
(9) From the opening of the very first refuges and support services in the 70s, women have described the control and tyranny they experience as central to abuse, and more defining than the physical violence that sometimes accompanies it.
(10) Time to leave: Egypt may be liberated from tyranny but there was a chance the message hadn't got through to Sharm el-Sheikh.
(11) Democracy has never meant the tyranny of the simple majority, much less the tyranny of the mob.” It was argued that we could not leave the final word on such momentous decisions to ordinary voters: they didn’t know what they really wanted, or they had been tricked into wanting something that would hurt them, or they were too ignorant to make informed choices, or maybe they quite simply wanted the wrong thing.
(12) Alison, meanwhile, is a prime example of what Gilbert describes as someone freed from “the Tyranny of the Bride”: having done it once, and particularly having had a child, she feels no overwhelming need to do it again.
(13) Two European Championships and the World Cup after a tyrannial reign, the squad is buried at the Maracana with the same noise of a giant collapsing."
(14) The government was taking the “way of tyranny” by stopping the House of Commons from holding the executive to account, he said.
(15) "While not everyone necessarily agrees with Tawakkul's role in the protest movement today, her role since 2007 in the struggle against tyranny and injustice, promoting freedom of speech and women's rights is undisputed.
(16) I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the whites.
(17) Treating AGIs like any other computer programs would constitute brainwashing, slavery and tyranny.
(18) Her reluctance to take in Britain's UN quota of 10,000 was all the more embarrassing in that it came after Thatcher had lectured the Soviet premier, Alexey Kosygin, on the plight of the Vietnamese boat people after fleeing "the tyranny of communism".
(19) Unlike in 1940, Britain wasn't threatened with invasion or occupation in 1914, and Europe's people were menaced by the machinations of their masters, rather than an atavistic tyranny.
(20) Resisting tyranny was the central premise of the republican (with a small r) tradition of political theory on which the 18th-century American revolution rests.