Example sentences of "sovereignty to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is absurd to talk about a fourth Reich , because it is us Germans who are today leading the way in ceding national sovereignty to European institutions ’ , he said . |
| 2 | Surrendering sovereignty to a UN body or its equivalent is not on even the sketchiest draft agenda for the future . |
| 3 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 4 | For the chief defect of parliamentary democracy is that it is representative : when a person elects a representative he necessarily surrenders part of his sovereignty to him . |
| 5 | It involves a further transfer of sovereignty to Brussels and is likely to be fiercely opposed by Tory Euro-sceptics . |
| 6 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 7 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 8 | This was clearest in defence and transport policy : only Bavaria , Saxony and Württemberg did not formally transfer military sovereignty to the Prussian Imperial Ministry of War . |
| 9 | It is extremely doubtful if Tudor monarchs would have conceded sovereignty to Parliament , at all events in any real and substantial sense . |
| 10 | But how could the warring states of Europe be persuaded to abandon national sovereignty to the degree necessary to make collective security a reality ? |
| 11 | And , as Italians have little sense of obligation to the state , relinquishing sovereignty to Brussels is no sacrifice . |
| 12 | Yet he stressed the importance of middle-class religion and family life to the monarchy 's health : ‘ A family on the throne brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life . ’ |
| 13 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 14 | More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other . |
| 15 | Functionalism in itself , however , did not answer a key question : whether there should be a continuation of inter-governmental co-operation or a loss of sovereignty to ‘ supranational ’ institutions , able to make binding decisions on their members . |
| 16 | By early 1950 it was clear that certain countries , foremost among them France , Italy and the Benelux states , were ready to consider a partial loss of sovereignty to supranational institutions . |
| 17 | But the work of the Spaak committee soon revealed that , even if the word ‘ supranationalism ’ was no longer used by the Six , the Messina decisions would probably lead to a loss of sovereignty to common institutions . |
| 18 | The resolution called for the resumption of negotiations and transfer of sovereignty to a United States of Indonesia before 1 July 1950 . |
| 19 | Just as men had at some remote date in the past surrendered some of their individual rights to a sovereign and thus created civil society , so now each State must surrender some of its sovereignty to a supranational authority . |
| 20 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 21 | The right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) can vote for it while being reluctant to concede any more sovereignty to the Community , and the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East can vote for it because he is in favour of conceding more sovereignty to the Community . |
| 22 | The right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) can vote for it while being reluctant to concede any more sovereignty to the Community , and the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East can vote for it because he is in favour of conceding more sovereignty to the Community . |
| 23 | The four-stage plan envisaged ( i ) concluding a co-operation treaty including economic , currency and transport union and legal alignment ; ( ii ) forming a confederation of East Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany or FRG ) with joint bodies and institutions ; ( iii ) transferring sovereignty to the confederation ; and ( iv ) creating a German Federation or Alliance after elections to a unified parliament which would decide on a constitution and government with its seat in Berlin . |
| 24 | A draft Bill of Rights , which was intended to secure basic civil liberties for Hong Kong following the reversion of its sovereignty to China in 1997 , was approved by the colony 's Executive Council on March 6 and published on March 16 . |
| 25 | Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland 's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished . |
| 26 | On Jan. 25 a debate in the Assembly of Bosnia-Hercegovina , boycotted by Serbian parties , endorsed a referendum on the republic 's sovereignty to be held on Feb. 29-March 1 . |
| 27 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 28 | He ruled out the deployment of ECOMOG in areas under his control , arguing that this " amounted to the abandonment of Liberia 's sovereignty to a foreign force controlled by a military command " . |
| 29 | All future transfers of sovereignty to the EC would require approval by a two-thirds majority of both houses . |
| 30 | Opponents of the scheme are critical of both the ecological consequences of destroying the forests and the apparent surrender of national sovereignty to a foreign corporation in return for uncertain gains . |