Sentence examples for sovereign entitled from inspiring English sources

Like other deals struck in the age of the imperial chief executive, Mr. Welch's retirement package -- negotiated in 1996, five years before he stepped down as chief executive -- treats him like a sovereign entitled to all the fruits of the realm.

It was also seen as a threat to the rights and independence of the states, who were "sovereign, entitled...to have a separate branch of Congress...to which they could send their ambassadors".

The dissent by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy accused the majority of "relegating states to the role of mere provinces or political corporations, instead of coequal sovereigns entitled to the same dignity and respect".

On the other hand, for tax purposes they are treated as sovereign states and thus entitled to sovereign immunity from taxes.

Both upheld the principle that sovereign states were entitled to do what they wanted within their borders.

Some legal principles of international law could in fact come into contradiction, and in Syria one can debate that the Regime representing a sovereign state is entitled to ask and receive from Moscow military assistance.

If Saddam Hussein can be visibly stopped from making mass-destruction weapons, and if Slobodan Milosevic can be made to accept that a "sovereign ruler" is not entitled to brutalise the people who live under his rule, the world will be a very different place from what it would otherwise have been.

Simply put, my administration will accord Israel the respect to which sovereign, democratic nations are entitled".

As a sovereign state, Iran is entitled to enrich, if it chooses; as a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is entitled to do so under safeguards.

A state is automatically entitled to exercise sovereign rights to explore and exploit the natural resources in an adjacent continental shelf (i.e., the ledges projecting from the land into and under the sea).

First, the First Circuit held in Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe (1979) that the Passamaquoddy were entitled to tribal sovereign immunity (see supra).