"Each of us is aware of the respective positions we have with regard to the sovereign titles we believe we hold regarding Malvinas [Argentina's name for the islands].
As the Court acknowledges, however, Congress responded to this problem by abrogating States' sovereign immunity in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 42 U.S.C.
Instead, such areas as Maishān (Mesene), in western Iran, and Sakastan (Sīstān), in eastern Iran, were now ruled by members of the Sāsānian family, who were appointed by the sovereign with the title of shāh (king).
For example, in Bradwell v. State (1873) and Goesaert v. Cleary (1948) the Court upheld state laws prohibiting women from practicing law and tending bar, respectively.... Congress responded to this history of discrimination by abrogating states' sovereign immunity in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and we sustained this abrogation in Fitzpatrick.
Later on, starting in 629, he styled himself as Basileus, the Greek word for "sovereign", and that title was used by the Roman Emperors for the next 800 years.
The term "Holy Roman emperor" is now generally used, for convenience, to designate the Western sovereigns, though the title was at first simply "emperor" (imperator; the German form kaiser being derived from the Roman caesar), then "august emperor," then, from 971, "Roman emperor".
In 1480 Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow, assumed the title of sovereign of all the Russes.
When the Republic of Texas joined the Union in 1845 as a sovereign nation, it kept title to its unappropriated land.
Grand duke, feminine grand duchess, also called (in Russia) grand prince and grand princess, title of sovereign princes ranking between kings and dukes and of certain members of the Russian imperial family.
An article on Saturday about investors' accelerating withdrawal from European sovereign debt misstated the title and experience of Peter R. Fisher, who commented on the trend's detrimental effect on the fiscal health of Europe.
