Sentence examples for sovereign authorities from inspiring English sources

National laws against hunting apes and selling their flesh often go unenforced in frontier zones, where timber companies can function as sovereign authorities.

Although the police officers in the Rodney King and Amadou Diallo cases were acquitted in state court, charging them with federal offenses would not be considered double jeopardy because the Supreme Court has ruled that the state and the federal government are separate sovereign authorities.

It implies that there is no single sovereign authority.

Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs.

The EU only puts out directives — it doesn't have sovereign authority of its members.

Each of these three options requires progressively more surrender of local sovereign authority.

12. Canada and Russia's rival assertions of sovereign authority over the Arctic North Pole.

He and Edgar were not doddering queens, but men of sovereign authority.

Participants affirmed support for the Afghan government's leadership in exercising its sovereign authority.

Whatever its causes, however, "federalist" rebellion did threaten national unity and the Convention's sovereign authority.

But there is no supranational sovereign authority that can effectively implement the body of international law.