Sentence examples for assertion of sovereignty from inspiring English sources
The court's decision in 1832 invalidating the state of Georgia's assertion of sovereignty over the Cherokee Nation could not have been effective without the president's backing.
China is working so quickly that its assertion of sovereignty could become a fait accompli before anything can be done to stop it.
Duterte's sensitivity to condemnation of his murderous crusade against drugs and his assertion of sovereignty is yet to be backed up with any actual shift in foreign policy.
On paper, Taiwan's claim is identical to that of China, whose assertion of sovereignty over most of the sea, within a vast mysterious U-shaped line around its edges, has alarmed its neighbours.
Iraqi politicians said his comments on Friday appeared to represent an effort to stake out a bargaining position by signaling that Iraq was serious about its assertion of sovereignty.
In 1933 Chinese mapmakers, angered by the French assertion of sovereignty further to the south in the Spratly islands, extended the claim right down to the James shoal, which they apparently thought was above water but is in fact a submerged feature near Borneo.In 1936, the U-shaped line appeared.
At that conference, she and other American diplomats continued to support a collective Southeast Asian response to China's assertions of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea.
That agreement, signed at Mr. Karzai's demand, set out a six-month transfer deadline and reflected rising assertions of sovereignty by the president and the Afghan government.
The hand-over deal, signed on March 9 at President Hamid Karzai's demand, set a six-month transfer schedule and was a reflection of rising Afghan assertions of sovereignty at a time of extreme tensions over American troops' burning of Korans.
The Senkakus are also claimed by Taiwan, but it is the competing assertions of sovereignty by Japan and China that have come to the fore in a summer of territorial tensions in east Asia.
