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There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.† (source)
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I felt a bodily sovereignty that I can't really describe except to say that when I was a kid I used to have a really heavy backpack that I carried everywhere with all my books in it, and if I walked around with the backpack for long enough, when I took it off I felt like I was floating.† (source)
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And now, after more than a decade of sacrificing everything, of leaving behind their families to live in mountains and fight for Afghanistan's sovereignty, the Mujahideen were coming to Kabul, in flesh, blood, and battle-weary bone.† (source)
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She's always said that when sovereignty is vested in a single person whose right to rule is hereditary, the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community are irrevocably lost.† (source)
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It's thirty million dollars, Anatole told me recently, that the U.S. has now spent trying to bring down Angola's sovereignty.† (source)
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The magus, in spite of his dogged pursuit of world sovereignty for Sounis, was a reasonably honest man.† (source)
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Especially in Poland, there can have been no need to rob a nation of sovereignty in its own self-contained area of settlement.† (source)
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Mingled with this confused heap, which was tossed into the flames by armfuls at once, were innumerable badges of knighthood, comprising those of all the European sovereignties, and Napoleon's decoration of the Legion of Honor, the ribbons of which were entangled with those of the ancient order of St. Louis.† (source)
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It was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, and so far 185 countries have become a party to it; the United States continues to refuse to ratify it, because of Republicans' concerns that CEDAW could nibble away at American sovereignty by surrendering authority to an international convention.† (source)
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Where two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins.† (source)
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As for the punks that have humiliated our country and our sovereignty, I show them no pity and insist they are in the deepest minority of American professionals.† (source)
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The point of intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society.† (source)
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates supported the air strike because it kept American ground forces out of Pakistan, which made the mission less like an invasion of the country's sovereignty.† (source)
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They should never split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.† (source)
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Sure, they still believe in God, but He's got competition now-a belief in the sovereignty of self—and the spell of absolute, unquestioning faith, upon which Long has built his cathedral, is broken.† (source)
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Few people have suggested that the States should divide into thirteen unconnected sovereignties.† (source)
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