Both Uses
sovereign
in
No Easy Day
(Edited)
- Since Operation Eagle Claw, there was a lot of risk in putting troops in harm's way in a sovereign country.
p. 171.3sovereign = self-governing
- We were an invading military force who had entered their sovereign territory.
p. 255.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(sovereign) a supreme ruler; or describing a political body as self-governing
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a British coin used until 1914; an adjective describing something as powerfully effective