Sentence examples for sovereign alone from inspiring English sources

In the second half of his reign, he removed control of taxation and finances from the estates altogether, thereby laying the groundwork for the powerful bureaucracy of later Prussian absolutism, with its standing army, fixed taxes, and an officialdom dependent on the sovereign alone.

For instance, he claims that the sovereign alone has right over religious matters such as interpreting Scripture, excommunicating heretics, and making provisions for the poor (19, 239 - 40), despite the fact that the church had, in fact, been exercising power in these matters.

The Sovereign alone grants membership of the Order; he or she is not advised by the Government, as occurs with most other Orders.

He consolidated power through such measures as appropriating the folk tradition of sampy (community talismans), thereby ensuring all the powers traditionally attributed to these idols were under the control of the sovereign alone.

China's new sovereign fund alone has two hundred billion dollars to invest, while sovereign wealth funds all together control more than two and a half trillion dollars — and could control as much as twelve trillion by 2015.

There are a number of rules belonging to civilization that outrage his sense of morality, among them the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which asserts that sovereign states alone are the ocean's enforcers.

The second precept is that each of us should be willing to lay down our natural rights to everything to the extent that others are also willing, and Hobbes concludes with the need to subordinate ourselves to a sovereign who alone will be able to secure peace.

Candidates were last nominated in 1860, and appointments have since been made by the Sovereign acting alone, with no prior nominations.

Asian pension and sovereign wealth funds alone are valued at over $3.5tn.

German banks have an exposure to Spain that is about three-quarters as great as it is to Portugal, Greece and Ireland combined.Not all of these debts would be affected by a sovereign default, let alone be wiped out.

[The LORD] asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know".