Sentence examples for sovereign rule from inspiring English sources

Like other tribes, the Mescalero Apaches have sovereign rule over their lands, permitting them to make such a move.

It has taken centuries of wars, revolutions and religious upheavals for Western society to overthrow sovereign rule and evolve to our current democratic system.

For Bodin, his contemporary, power was not sufficient in itself to create a sovereign; rule must comply with morality to be durable, and it must have continuity i.e., a means of establishing succession.

What Haig, our leading exponent of farcical mania, brings out superbly is the monarch's native cunning: he affects a rustic, Farmer George simplicity while relishing the power of sovereign rule.

Arthur Mangin, a French zoologist, declared that the rotting tail was the remains of a sea plant, and urged "the wise, and especially the man of science, not to admit into the catalogue those stories which mention extraordinary creatures... the existence of which would be... a contradiction of the great laws of harmony and equilibrium which have sovereign rule over living nature".

To the races of India, for whom the legends and records of the past are charged with so intense a meaning, this resumption by the paramount Power of the seat of venerable Empire should at once enforce the continuity and promise the permanency of British sovereign rule over the length and breadth of the country".

The first is their version of the traditional Chinese doctrine that the sovereign rules by the mandate of Heaven (tian ming).

Gibraltar took their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which determined that because Uefa's "non-sovereign" rule was not in place at the time of Gibraltar's original submission for membership, Uefa was obliged to accept the request for membership.

Successive Merina sovereigns ruled over the Kingdom of Imerina from Analamanga through King Andriamasinavalona's reign.

This is an ancient notion, dating back to imperial times, when an emperor's reign was believed to be legitimised by a so-called "mandate of heaven," (tianming), that conferred the right on a sovereign to rule.

But Iraqi political figures here believe that the United States and Britain will not be able to sustain a strategy of suppressing Iraqi demands for a more rapid transition to sovereign Iraqi rule.