Sentence examples for exercise sovereignty from inspiring English sources

Beyond humanitarian endeavours the UK government should assist the Iraqi state to exercise sovereignty over its borders.

One idea currently being considered is to let the United Nations Security Council exercise sovereignty over the Temple Mount.

He said it was not a matter of getting the United Nations to exercise sovereignty in Iraq but of the United Nations helping Iraq exercise its own sovereignty.

"It is our territory and we're entitled to exercise sovereignty," said Sun Peng, a 32-year-old software developer in Shanghai who has campaigned against Japan.

Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty no country can exercise sovereignty over any part of the continent and its waters are international.

Mr. Wu said the aim was to allow Beijing to "exercise sovereignty over all land features inside the South China Sea," including more than 40 islands "now occupied illegally" by Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.

So, in the networked world, exercising sovereignty comes down to being nice to Apple.

The question now before the Supreme Court is whether the United States exercises sovereignty over its naval base at Guantánamo Bay.

In the 19th century the English jurist John Austin (1790 1859) developed the concept further by investigating who exercises sovereignty in the name of the people or of the state; he concluded that sovereignty is vested in a nation's parliament.

In effect, Canada, at its inception, was two states for two nations, with French Quebec flanked by a combination of English-speaking Ontario and Maritime provinces, sharing what might be shared and exercising sovereignty where necessary.

"For three-quarters of the public, going to the United Nations is about exercising sovereignty," Khalil Shikaki, a political scientist and the director of the opinion survey, said by telephone.