sovereignty

• Faced with the problem of balancing self-sovereignty, and desire for a family, she recognized that the latter goal might require some compromise of the first.
• Grotius and Hoogerbetz promised that the States of Holland would not abandon them on this occasion when their sovereignty was at stake: they also brought Letters from the States to the principal officers of the ordinary garrison, tending to persuade them that it was their duty to obey the States of Utrecht, who paid them, and to resist the Stadtholder. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• Assuredly, few of us know that such an assault on our sovereignty is afoot; in all likelihood, fewer still would support it. —  2 Political Junkies
• Only those who don't believe in American sovereignty and independence would cheer this attempt to make Spain the arbiter of American action. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
• The Romans began with one king; they came to two consuls; they returned in extremities to one dictator: whether in one or many, the sovereignty is the same in all states and the danger is not the more, and the providence is the more, where there are more physicians; as the state is the happier where businesses are carried by more counsels than can be in one breast, how large soever. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel

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