You just get up one morning and say: I am the leader of a sovereign state.

But I have no say over what happens in that sovereign state.

A regime is the leader and other people who run a government of a sovereign state.

"Why does she not know Kenya is a sovereign state?"

"We had no opportunity to make decisions as a sovereign state," he said.

Safety and security are primarily the responsibility of each sovereign state.

"Foreign policy goes right to the heart of what it means to be a sovereign state.

A constitution is a particular form of organic law for a sovereign state.

Bosnia has no recent history as a sovereign state, he would argue.

That must be done by the fiat of the sovereign state.

A functioning society would then maintain peace without a Sovereign state.

By the next parts of the series, enough people have come to Venus to make it a sovereign state and a major power.

No occupation of a sovereign state by another is acceptable under law.

August 14: Pakistan comes into being as an independent sovereign state.

And then we try, historically, to work these things out in consultation with the sovereign state.

But Russia, other officials point out, if no longer a superpower, is still a sovereign state.

"No sovereign state can ignore such a sequence of events."

We fully support Iraq remaining a unified and sovereign state.

The Vatican is the smallest sovereign state in the world.

Lycia had not been a sovereign state for some time.

He was elected administrator of the new "sovereign state" by his family.

This would make Scotland the 113th largest country by population if it were a sovereign state.

Federal government is the government at the level of the sovereign state.

This right of a sovereign state cannot be interfered with from outside.

It has become a sovereign state and is, to use a Dutch expression, small but tough.