Sentence examples for asserting sovereignty over from inspiring English sources

By making this request, Japan was asserting sovereignty over the Ryukyus (and acknowledging Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan).

Taiwan adheres to the same vague "nine-dashed line" claim as China, asserting sovereignty over almost all the South China Sea.

The council barely picks up the rubbish and doesn't maintain the street lamps, but [the tram] is a way of asserting sovereignty over East Jerusalem".

He thought it was a limited form of intelligence, a way of asserting sovereignty over the material world, but still, to Nachman's mind, Bergson was a kind of mathematician.

Vietnam has emerged as China's main rival in the South China Sea, actively asserting sovereignty over both the Paracel and the Spratly groupings in their entirety and undergoing its own naval modernisation.

Control of the South China Sea is the most contentious and explosive diplomatic issue in east Asia, with China asserting sovereignty over maritime areas that span 3.5m square kilometres but are also claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Japan.

China has more forcefully asserted sovereignty over great swathes of the South China Sea.

Though Israel asserts sovereignty over the site, its security forces normally stay on the plaza's walled perimeter.

Or does it, following historic maps that show a "nine-dash line" round the edge of the sea (see map), also assert sovereignty over the water itself?

For several centuries beginning in the European Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas.

China has asserted sovereignty over Tibet since the 1950s, when it invaded the one-time Himalayan kingdom and forced the Dalai Lama, its spiritual leader, to flee.