Example sentences of "[prep] sovereignty over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 2 | The Argentinian Foreign Minister said that his country did not require guarantees of sovereignty over the Falklands as long as they remained in Argentinian possession , and strikes broke out in hospitals . |
| 3 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 4 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 5 | The issue of sovereignty over the Islands was not discussed [ see also p. 38435 ] . |
| 6 | The GSLP , which was traditionally strongly opposed to Spain 's claim of sovereignty over the territory , had campaigned on a platform calling for greater autonomy from the United Kingdom , particularly in the economic sphere . |
| 7 | Iran on Sept. 10 repeated its claim of sovereignty over the Gulf islands of Abu Musa , Tunb al-Kubra and Tunb al-Sughra , and rejected a Sept. 9 statement by the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) supporting the UAE 's sovereignty [ see below ] . |
| 8 | Mass demonstrations began again in Baku on Jan. 8 over sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 9 | Both leaders agreed to submit their dispute over sovereignty over the 1,000-km Aouzou territorial strip , seized by Libya in 1973 , to the adjudication of the International Court of Justice at The Hague , as stipulated in the " Algiers Accord " signed by both sides in August 1989 [ see p. 36841 ] . |
| 10 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 11 | When Argentina recognises the right to self-determination and freedom of association of the Falklands people , and gives up her claim to sovereignty over the territory , we might be more amenable to trade and contact . |
| 12 | As a result it would be possible for the French at some future date to renew their claim to sovereignty over Aquitaine , and for the English to do the same in respect of the crown of France . |
| 13 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 14 | During the course of Edward 's long reign the English crown attained what , according to one historian , amounted to sovereignty over the English church . |
| 15 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 16 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 17 | However , he confirmed that Argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands , set to one side during the negotiations , would continue to be pursued in international forums . |
| 18 | Less than a week after achieving full independence on June 19 [ see p. 18159 ] , Kuwait was threatened by a claim to sovereignty over the whole of its territory by the Iraqi leader , Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem . |
| 19 | The draft agreement would guarantee Guatemalan access to the Caribbean and could , if ratified by both sides and confirmed by public referendum , lead to the abandonment of Guatemala 's historic claim to sovereignty over Belize . |
| 20 | Although Denmark and the UK won temporary exemption from lifting internal border controls , Spain refused to sign at the last minute on the grounds that the agreement might prejudice its claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar . ] |
| 21 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 22 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |