Example sentences of "sovereignty [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One by one , governments gave up sovereignty for stability and acceded to the TAPIR . |
| 2 | The Deutsche Bank described German monetary union thus : ‘ On July 1st , 1990 , the Bundesbank will assume monetary sovereignty for East Germany . ’ |
| 3 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 4 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |
| 5 | Two of these scholars , Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer , who were both members of Anne Boleyn 's faction at court , were responsible for drawing up a document called the Collectanea satis copiosa , in which they advanced a claim of imperial sovereignty for the English monarchy . |
| 6 | Gorbachev , speaking after his election as President , called for the conclusion of a ‘ new union treaty ’ of this kind ; and the Federation Council , when it met later in the year , agreed that a union treaty was necessary which would ‘ guarantee real economic and political sovereignty for the republics ’ . |
| 7 | By 7 September 1992 an ICM poll was showing that only 24 per cent of the British electorate wanted ‘ to exchange some of our sovereignty for closer ties with Europe ’ , while 76 per cent wanted ‘ to leave Britain as a trading partner with the rest of Europe ’ . |
| 8 | The narrow nationalism expressed by people who want to cling to total sovereignty for the United Kingdom is rather like the arguments we hear from Scottish and Welsh nationalists — unrealistic and out of date . |
| 9 | The Bloc Québecois , a newly formed political group committed to achieving sovereignty for Quebec , recorded a decisive by-election win in east-central Montreal on Aug. 13 . |
| 10 | By unilaterally adopting the programme , with its commitment to wide-ranging economic sovereignty for the individual republics , Russia placed itself potentially on a collision course with the USSR administration should the latter not follow suit . |
| 11 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 12 | The town of Almetevsk in the Tatar ASSR ( Tataria or Tatarstan ) was the scene on April 21 of clashes between police and demonstrators demanding full sovereignty for Tatarstan and greater autonomy within the Russian Federation . |
| 13 | Le Parti Québecois ( Jacques Parizeau l. ) , a social democratic party founded in 1968 , is committed to the achievement of sovereignty for the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec . |
| 14 | Bourassa 's attitude coincided with opinion poll evidence which suggested that , while a majority of Quebec 's population currently supported sovereignty for the province , there was growing concern about the potential negative effects of breaking up the Canadian federation . |
| 15 | Despite the insistence of Serbia that its actions were illegal , the Kosovo Assembly ( dissolved by the Serbian government in July 1990 — see pp. 37621-22 ) organized a referendum on Sept. 26-30 on sovereignty for the 92 per cent Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo , and proceeded on Oct. 19 to elect a provisional coalition government , headed by Bujar Bukoshi , which was recognized on Oct. 22 by Albania . |
| 16 | The referendum was reported as recording an 87.01 per cent turnout and 99.87 per cent approval for sovereignty for Kosovo . |
| 17 | With the bulk of the province 's French-speaking population opposing the agreement on the grounds that its concessions to their province were insufficient , Parizeau was optimistic of his party 's chances of winning power in Quebec 's next provincial elections — due by 1994 — and suggested that such a development would be followed by a provincial referendum on the issue of sovereignty for Quebec . |
| 18 | Another incident which raised sovereignty as a public and formal issue was more complex : the formal cause was not indignation but the pertinacious enthusiasm of an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman . |
| 19 | Hallstein himself in 1964 dismissed national sovereignty as a doctrine of ‘ yesteryear ’ , arguing that it was no longer true that ‘ the national unit , relying on itself , its own strength and skills , should be the final and only yardstick of the historical process ’ . |
| 20 | Dicey 's identification of sovereignty as a basic principle is based in part on the work of earlier writers and in part on the use of historical examples to demonstrate both the breadth of Parliament 's authority and the absence of any competing legislative authority . |
| 21 | The issue seems resonant of the classic Hart-Fuller debate in which — to re-interpret — Hart posits sovereignty as the criterion of identity of law against Fuller 's conception of the rule of law as embodying the essence of law . |
| 22 | A view of legal sovereignty as a component of political morality , however , locates its authority in the source from which the ‘ validity of constitutional maxims ’ is derived : it is equally ‘ subordinate and subservient to the fundamental principle of popular sovereignty . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Trying to take away our sovereignty through the bloody Common Market , ’ chimed in the Commander . |
| 24 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 25 | However , with the emergence of the Southern Irish state , it soon became clear that this secularization of the state form was not to signify an absence of Roman catholic power in the construction of public morality , but rather an indirect recognition of the sovereignty of the church in most areas of moral concern besides education . |
| 26 | So-called , because , except for Pretoria , no one in the world recognises the sovereignty of the Transkei , which is otherwise perceived to be simply a geographical region in the south-eastern corner of South Africa . |
| 27 | Through him Gabriel learns the true nature of Elena 's vision , which points to the sovereignty of love amid the warring clamour of Catholicism and Communism . |
| 28 | The letter of invitation said Mr Gollnisch would have ‘ the perfect opportunity to show support for Mrs Thatcher 's policy of protecting the identity and national sovereignty of all European nations ’ . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister argued strongly against any form of federalism that would undermine the sovereignty of the nation-state . |
| 30 | And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in . |