Example sentences for: sovereignty

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

  • "It is doing all it can to attain an honorable peace which safeguards rights, dignity, and sovereignty.

  • 4. Surrender of sovereignty, Part 2. In a USA Today op-ed piece, Helms asserted that the treaty would "require that the U.S. assist Cuba and Iran in modernizing their chemical-weapons facilities."

  • This often involves some marginal sacrifice of sovereignty: an agreement by each nation to constrain its future behavior so long as others do, and systematic deference to international judgment.

  • The South China Morning Post described scenes of "unconfined joy" and "delight" at the arrival of the People's Liberation Army, and according to Britain's Independent , "[a]lmost everyone agreed that China's resumption of sovereignty would help wipe out a turf war that has gripped Macau's gambling industry and sparked 39 triad gangster killings this year alone."

  • Hoffmann tries to define the components of what we consider "good causes" and then to set up "a hierarchy of concerns" to deal with the often contradictory demands of trying to honor "sovereignty, self-determination, democratic government, and individual rights."


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