Sentence examples for declared itself sovereign from inspiring English sources

Belarus declared itself sovereign on 1990 by issuing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

This was the pattern in every republic that had declared itself sovereign.

It looked like the end for him when a national conference declared itself sovereign and he was forced to accept a prime minister from the opposition.

The federal government also pursued what Chrétien called "Plan B", to try to convince voters that economic and legal obstacles would follow if Québec were to declare itself sovereign.

Kosovo declared itself independent in 2008.

Back in 2008, Kosovo declared itself independent, shrugged off the UN protectorate under which it had lived since the 1999 Nato bombing, and seceded from Serbia, its titular sovereign.

In March 1990 Lithuania went further and declared itself independent.

Montenegro declared itself independent in 2006, effectively land-locking Serbia.

March 2 is the date Texas declared itself independent of Mexico.

The following month the Russian S.F.S.R. declared itself a sovereign state.

In 1847 Guatemala declared itself a sovereign republic and was quickly followed by Costa Rica in 1848 and eventually by the other regional states.