Hong Kong, despite having returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, operates under a separate legal system and does not have an extradition agreement with the mainland.
Although the two can be put together – the right to determine the rules under which your economy operates also has to do with sovereignty – when it comes to immigration, it plays into that split.
Notwithstanding its accomplishments, the United Nations still operates under the basic provision of respect for national sovereignty and noninterference in the domestic affairs of states.
The WFP, like other U.N. agencies, operates under a General Assembly mandate that says Syria's sovereignty cannot be violated.
In the international realm, we seem to believe that our claim to national sovereignty allows us to operate unilaterally -- America first and foremost, not together or in conformity with a global contract.
"There's a world view that universities, and the most talented people in universities, will operate beyond sovereignty.
On the other hand, the designation was not used for Pulau Pisang, an island under Malaysian sovereignty on which Singapore operated a lighthouse.
"Freemen" was a term adopted by those who claimed sovereignty from government jurisdiction and operated under their own legal system, which they called common-law courts.
Rather, we need discreet operating locations, under local sovereignty, that the Pentagon helps to maintain.
The Nisour Square shootings became a watershed event in the Iraq war, and led the Iraqi government to demand greater sovereignty and control over foreign contractors operating in the country.
