Sentence examples for sovereign i from inspiring English sources

Because the courts are under the power of the Sovereign, i.e the Queen, she is unable to prosecute herself because that would be ridiculous.

Commands are laws "simply and properly so-called" when they prescribe courses of conduct, not specific acts, and are "set" by the "sovereign" (i.e., the person or persons to whom a society renders habitual obedience and who render no such obedience to others).

As he put it in A Fragment on Government, "By a sovereign I mean any person or assemblage of persons to whose will a whole political community are (no matter on what account) supposed to be in a disposition to pay obedience" (1977, 18).

The tough cases for Hobbes are those where breaking a promise would result in the promise breaker escaping the reach of the sovereign altogether by becoming a sovereign, i.e., cases of revolution or usurpation.

VICE: I guess it's hard to date anyone from the grime scene… Lady Sovereign: I never know if people are approaching me for the right reasons.

After listening to this track we're premiering, "Desire Is Sovereign," I can vouch that Cosmin has did a pretty good job of slicing off that metaphorical knot.

By approaching the region through the frame of the "non-sovereign" I seek to break with the linguistic divides that have plagued the field of Caribbean studies in order to bring together research on the French, English, Spanish, and Dutch speaking Caribbean and to highlight points of commonality in both the historical trajectories and contemporary political forms and processes of the region.

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.

Whether it was an energy policy conducted behind closed doors, the rollback of civil liberties, the use of torture, or just being dead wrong about the need to preemptively invade a sovereign nation, I worsened my own condition by naively believing what I was witnessing in the moment was as bad as it could get.

Management of Sovereign Bancorp I may have won a battle but lost the war for long-term control of the bank.

He told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "To legislate for 507 million citizens in 28 sovereign countries, I think this is not easy.