Sentence examples for sovereign authority from inspiring English sources

It implies that there is no single 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.

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.

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

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

Shelby County, Ala., one of those jurisdictions, contends that Section 5 intrudes unconstitutionally on the sovereign authority of states.

Accordingly, he said, Virginia had "sovereign authority, free from regulation by Maryland" to take water from the river.

To avoid this result, man must cede his natural right of self-defence, and much else, to a sovereign authority with very broad powers, preferably an absolute monarch.

The emblems or paraphernalia of his office represent sovereign authority: the white umbrella of state, for example, is the residence of Shri-Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune.