Example sentences for: sovereign

How can you use “sovereign” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Writing in the Irish Times of Dublin Friday, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said: "In Ireland, North and South, we can now say with certainty, it is the people who are sovereign.

  • Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, urged her colleagues not to let Clinton "take an affirmative military action against a sovereign nation that has not committed a security threat to the United States."

  • After King Birendra became sovereign in 1972 — tenth in the line of Shah rulers since King Prithvi the Great — a referendum in which all Nepalis over 21 were eligible to vote confirmed the popular preference for the panchayat system over a return to multi-party democracy.

  • GOVERNMENTAL RECEIPTS - Collections from the public that result primarily from the exercise of the Government's sovereign or governmental powers.

  • The action sets a dangerous precedent by attacking a sovereign state for suppressing an ethnic minority with secessionist aspirations.


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