Sentence examples for assert the sovereignty from inspiring English sources

Alongside wrangling over the EU deal, Mr Cameron is also finalising new domestic legislation designed to assert the sovereignty of the UK Parliament.

Cameron's vow in the Commons earlier this month came after Johnson asked him to explain how his EU reforms would "assert the sovereignty of this House of Commons and these Houses of Parliament".

In his relations with two of the major barons of the older March, Gilbert de Clare of Glamorgan and Humphrey de Bohun of Brecon, Edward showed a determination to assert the sovereignty of the crown over the March and to eradicate abuses of the Custom of the March such as the claim, defiantly expressed by Gilbert, to the right to wage war in the March.

Although African states are often said to have very porous borders, there has definitely been a drive to make them less porous as part of a larger quest to assert the sovereignty of African over their territory and the populations inhabiting that territory.

Johnson then called on Cameron to outline a plan to re-assert the sovereignty of parliament.

When that idea was knocked down by the prime minister, Johnson alighted on the idea of finding a way to formally re-assert the sovereignty of the UK parliament.

When the Scottish reclaimed their nationhood from Westminster, they asserted the sovereignty of their citizens.

A draft of the first constitution for an independent Scotland, legally asserting the sovereignty of the Scottish people but with the Queen as head of state, has been published by the SNP administration in Edinburgh.

But the EU negotiation package was not the main part of their discussions because the mayor accepts he can bring the greatest influence to bear on asserting the sovereignty of parliament.

Those powers were increasingly being claimed by the politicians, and insofar as George III did re-affirm Britain's right to rule, to tax and to legislate for the American colonies, he believed he was asserting the sovereignty of the British parliament rather than that of the British crown.

The Act asserts the sovereignty of the country over its genetic resources and the need to promote the conservation and sustainable use of the resources as well as the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of the resources.