Example sentences of "sovereignty in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time , just after Britain and China signed in 1984 their Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong , when the colony looked forward with high hopes to the 50 or more years of capitalist autonomy which both parent-governments had promised would follow its reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 2 | The latest move comes a day after Ke Zaishuo , the senior Peking representative to the Joint Liaison Group — the Anglo-Chinese body overseeing Hong Kong 's return to mainland sovereignty in 1997 — blamed Britain for the crisis of confidence in the territory after the Chinese army assault on Tiananmen Square . |
| 3 | Golden Freeze is not well handicapped and has gone up 4lb since finishing second to Joint Sovereignty in the Mackeson . |
| 4 | The case of the Carnation Milk , bringing an Ajdabiyan policeman into conflict with the Dairy Products Committee in Tripoli , threatened to raise the issue of local sovereignty in an acute form — one , that is , which demanded a decision by independent judges . |
| 5 | Its end , in September 1995 , is necessary before China retakes sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 6 | Its end , in September 1995 , is necessary before China retakes sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 7 | In trade and agriculture , thirdly , Britain is committed always to pursue policies in concert with other EC members , and has pooled sovereignty in these areas completely . |
| 8 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 9 | As the House of Lords Select Committee put it , ‘ It is consistent with the attribute of sovereignty in the international law sense for states to enter into groupings such as alliances or international organisations … |
| 10 | The other countries of the EC , which count among their number some of the oldest political units in the world ( France , Denmark , the Netherlands , Spain , Portugal ) , by contrast , seem quite happy to dissolve their sovereignty in the supranationalism of the EC . |
| 11 | Its prophet , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , proclaimed the right of all people to express their national character through the exercise of political sovereignty in a government of their own . |
| 12 | There was nothing equivocal about that ; nor was there about the oath of allegiance the emirs were required to take , which recognized the undisputed sovereignty in all matters , saving that of religion , of the British government . |
| 13 | Macao , the Portuguese territory on the southern coast of China , will revert to Chinese sovereignty in 1999 . |
| 14 | The new postwar constitutions of France and Italy ( and later that of the new Federal Republic of Germany ) included clauses which allowed for the possibility of the abrogation of national sovereignty in favour of supranational authorities . |
| 15 | The engineering capability and traffic demands meant that an airfield was many years off — the float-equipped ‘ bush ’ aircraft was to have many years of sovereignty in Ontario . |
| 16 | They thought that sovereignty in itself would take Ukraine out of Russia 's sphere of influence and , in time , allow it to join the European mainstream . |
| 17 | I have already mentioned that Dicey finds support for the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty in the work of earlier writers . |
| 18 | The reluctance of the UK and other member countries to go further stems from the inherent feature of monetary union : the relinquishing of a high degree of sovereignty in economic policy-making to a supra-national body . |
| 19 | In legal terms it seemed that he was free to intervene ; his claim to exercise sovereignty in Aquitaine had not been renounced in 1360 . |
| 20 | At the 1921–2 Washington Conference Japan agreed to restore Chinese sovereignty in Shandong , but only in return for Chinese confirmation of Japan 's economic privileges there . |
| 21 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 22 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 23 | Britain never developed this idea of popular sovereignty in constitutional terms , even if we sometimes talk of the sovereignty of the electorate in political terms . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , Dicey gives implicit support for this view when he considers the distinction between legal and political sovereignty in the context of conventions . |
| 25 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 26 | Pending the re-establishment of Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong , the Society has also been anxious to develop good relations with Chinese counterparts , and welcomed a high level delegation of Chinese lawyers to the UK last May . |
| 27 | Secondly , we want this progress to be sustained without interruption after the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 28 | Where is the sovereignty in going it alone ? |
| 29 | Nevertheless , my right hon. Friend is right to point out the role that we can play , where countries come together on issues , whereas on other issues — certainly on major critical and substantial issues — they must retain absolute national sovereignty in the development of their own foreign policies . |
| 30 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) that other countries are offering to help us to use their sovereignty in a way that will benefit us in the future . |