SOVEREIGNTY in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for SOVEREIGNTY, such as:
1. It has its divine right of sovereignty.
2. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
3. Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty.
4. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they made, there was sovereignty.
5. There are lots of things UN and US have to do, in order to steer Iraq back to sovereignty.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SOVEREIGNTY
sovereignty
 n.  royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
 n.  government free from external control
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they made, there was sovereignty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
2  One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
3  Revolutionary agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular sovereignty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
4  This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any other; but, even when led astray, it remains great.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
5  That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
7  This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
8  Each sovereignty concedes a certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
9  I was somewhat afflicted," he said, "to see the grief of the Queen of Love and Beauty, whose sovereignty of a day this event has changed into mourning.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Athelstane, it is true, was vain enough, and loved to have his ears tickled with tales of his high descent, and of his right by inheritance to homage and sovereignty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  And now to my boon," said the King, "which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  It has its divine right of sovereignty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  But he who reaches sovereignty by popular favour finds himself alone, and has none around him, or few, who are not prepared to obey him.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
Example Sentence:
1  Iraqi sovereignty does not neglect the U.S. promise to protect the residents of Camp Ashraf.
2  There are lots of things UN and US have to do, in order to steer Iraq back to sovereignty.
3  Iraq's Foreign Minister, Mr. Zebari let slip first thing this morning the news that it had been decided to bring forward the transfer of sovereignty to today.
4  An Australian-administered island in the eastern Indian Ocean south of Java. It was annexed by Great Britain in1888 and came under Australian sovereignty in1958.
5  The Foreign Secretary assured anti-federalist MPs that he would not agree to anything which limited British sovereignty.
6  We will never allow anybody to encroach upon China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
7  It is the force which subjects producers and resource suppliers to the dictates of buyer or consumer sovereignty.
8  The Argentinian president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, used a meeting of the council this week to renew demands for talks over the sovereignty of the Falklands.