Example sentences of "sovereignty for " 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for the United Kingdom is rather like the arguments we hear from Scottish and Welsh nationalists — unrealistic and out of date .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 . |