He was our chief, our sovereign, the man who decided our destinies throughout school, who could throw us out at any time he deemed our work or attitude unworthy.
They also wear protective battle gear, as in the case of the eighth-to-ninth-century figure Tsenpo, described in an ancient manuscript as "a god who became the sovereign of men, due to his power derived from the great radiance of his sacred helmet".
"Seeking to create a popular, legitimate, sovereign state," a man said, speaking into a loudspeaker to a cheering crowd, "I proclaim the creation of the sovereign state of the people's republic of Donetsk".
One foresees only great things ahead for a nation where a visiting Frenchman can purchase a million hectares of verdant Dakota farming land, sight unseen, merely by handing over 50 gold sovereigns to a man in a checkered suit with a stogie, encountered in a public house.
Education for him is to create "free men, sovereign characters," by which he means "eternal characters ... who are therefore eternal because they form themselves each moment".
Zhao executed the puppet sovereign and set another man on the throne, whom he also attempted to execute.
Even Karl Marx inveighed against how man, "the sovereign of nature," had degraded himself in India by worshipping Hanuman, the monkey god.
For the next 10 months, until Mr. Allawi's party lost in the Iraqi elections, he was the first prime minister of the newly sovereign nation — America's man in Baghdad.
He also identified as a sovereign citizen, like the man who killed four people at a Waffle House this past April.
But, he concedes that a huge component of his latest work, Sovereign, which follows Advance Man and Blast Radius in the trilogy, is due to his wife Saundra Yaklin, who serves as the trilogy's scenic designer.
