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to be the greatest in authority or power within a nation- Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.Woodrow Wilson
- China does not recognize Taiwan's claims to sovereignty.
- He was a Kurd, and really did not recognize the sovereignty of the border we had crossed last night.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- O, give me pardon, That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd Your unknown sovereignty.William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- It's thirty million dollars, Anatole told me recently, that the U.S. has now spent trying to bring down Angola's sovereignty.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- The faeries have always had their own sovereignty, our own kings and queens.Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- Especially in Poland, there can have been no need to rob a nation of sovereignty in its own self-contained area of settlement.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
- As long as he possesses the Book, it is not just Rowan's sovereignty that hangs in the balance, but the fate of this very world.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- Mundt, who had no diplomatic immunity (NATO Britain does not recognize our sovereignty), went into hiding.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The magus, in spite of his dogged pursuit of world sovereignty for Sounis, was a reasonably honest man.Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
- The sovereignty of Free Luna is not the abstract matter you seem to feel it is.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- For he was preparing to take up the reins again as if her sovereignty had been nothing, nothing at all.Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
- If the Clave will sign over all the powers of the Council to me and accept my unequivocal sovereignty and rule, I will stay my hand.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- Cheer us and warm us with thy gracious rays, O flaming sun of sovereignty!Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- To have nagged would have been to admit that there were persons who did not acknowledge her sovereignty.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad, Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- —Then 'tis most like, The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.William Shakespeare -- Macbeth