"sovereign status" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the independent authority and power of a country or entity to govern itself without interference from others. Example: The country's sovereign status gives it the ability to make its own decisions and policies without being influenced by outside forces.
The tribes argued that their sovereign status protected them from regulation by New York State.
If elected, he said, he would not try to write Taiwan's sovereign status as a "state" into the Constitution.
He shrewdly sold the alliance as a chance for the five tribal nations to regain their sovereign status.
The Hechingen and Sigmaringen branches attained princely rank in 1623 but surrendered their sovereign status to Prussia in 1849.
He referred to a 1989 statement by the bishops that called for "an independent Palestinian homeland with sovereign status recognized by Israel".
In 1000 he received the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, who dreamed of restoring a universal Roman empire and who recognized the sovereign status of the Polish duke.
Many Tatars, who take pride in their republic's quasi-sovereign status, fear that Mr. Putin's strong words will usher in a new era of Russian chauvinism.
Some of it has been racked up by state corporations and national energy companies, which gives it a quasi-sovereign status.
In North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, the Supreme Court has held in clear, repeated, unambiguous, and unavoidable language that any such state entity that is controlled by "active market participants" in the trade regulated does not, and cannot, have "sovereign" state status.
It is not clear how such a restraint was to be reconciled with the supreme status of sovereign authority.
Brazil's economic gloom deepened on Wednesday when credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the recession-hit nation's sovereign debt status to junk.
