Example sentences for: sovereign

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

  • Collections are classified as follows:-- Budget receipts or off-budget receipts are collections from the public based on the government's exercise of its sovereign powers, including collections from participants in compulsory social insurance programs.

  • Named after the hill on which it stands and which in the Middle Ages was surrounded by a malarial swamp, the Vatican has been a papal residence for over 600 years, but a sovereign state independent of Italy only since the Lateran Treaty signed by Mussolini in 1929.

  • An aristocrat by birth, he introduced electoral constituencies called demes and set up a sovereign citizens’ assembly and a senate, whose members were chosen by lot.

  • 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.

  • The new ruler grew wealthy and powerful, twice declaring war on his sovereign and almost beating the sizeable but dissolute Ottoman army.


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