Sentence examples for assertions of sovereignty from inspiring English sources

The Colombian state is scarcely alone in failing to back up assertions of sovereignty with meaningful actions.

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 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.

China's suppression of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet and its vague assertions of sovereignty over some Bhutanese territory lent urgency to the Chinese threat, and in the 1950s India took measures to strengthen its defensive garrisons along Bhutan's northern border with Tibet.

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.

China is working so quickly that its assertion of sovereignty could become a fait accompli before anything can be done to stop it.

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.

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.

American officials have expressed growing concerns over diplomatic tensions in East Asia and Southeast Asia, much of it related to regional anxieties over China's military rise and its assertion of sovereignty over rocks, reefs, islands, fisheries and sea lanes in the area.

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.