Sentence examples for been sovereign from inspiring English sources
adjective
Exercising power of rule.
When David Davis, secretary of state for Brexit, responded to the High Court's decision that only parliament has the authority to trigger article 50, he became unusually incoherent: "Parliament is sovereign," he said, "has been sovereign, but of course the people are sovereign".
And it's been sovereign wealth fund's capital.
Wood: But you're asking about investment implications, and I think one of the themes that I've been looking at, coming into 2010, has been sovereign risk.
But formally the States-General had been sovereign since 1588, and the Stadtholder was merely their "first servant".
In desperation, financial behemoths have had to go to the capital markets for money, and the main providers have been sovereign wealth funds of the emerging countries.
She was afraid of moving to Castile because, although her mentally unstable mother Joanna (who died aged 77 in April 1555) had been sovereign there, Mary had never lived in Castile.
They were sovereign political entities.
Parliament must be sovereign".
European governments will still be sovereign.
