Sentence examples for sovereign acts from inspiring English sources

In Scottish matters, the Sovereign acts on the advice of the Scottish Government.

Under modern constitutional conventions, the sovereign acts on the advice of his or her ministers.

However, as devolution is more limited in Wales, in Welsh matters the Sovereign acts on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

Among her books and publications are: Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture CHOICE Awardd, 2004), The Latino Media Gap (2014), and Sovereign Acts (forthcoming).

Amnesty, in criminal law, sovereign act of oblivion or forgetfulness (from Greek amnēsia) for past acts, granted by a government to persons who have been guilty of crimes.

And it will be in line with other EU states, like Germany who in a different constitutional framework give effect to EU law through their own sovereign act".

The sovereign act of voting - in Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and elsewhere - has been interpreted as if elections were barometers of support for Chávez or Bush.

The letter of the law concerning the protection of national independence and the economy in Cuba allows the authorities in my country to sentence me to prison because of the only sovereign act I have performed since I gained the use of my reason: writing without being dictated to.

It becomes, because of its standing as a sovereign act, an act of war.

Ms. Altmann and Mr. Schoeberg won appeals all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 2004 that Ms. Altmann had the right to pursue her claim under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, even though the act had not been passed until 1976.

The 6-to-3 decision interpreted a jurisdictional statute, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, to apply to conduct predating its enactment in 1976.