Both were just about right; international television is a sovereign power.

Had China not, in reality, been the sovereign power for many years?

The ability to keep the peace was seen as an expression of sovereign power.

He has not been given some role of sovereign power."

"After all, they are the representatives of a sovereign power.

Internal sovereignty is the relationship between a sovereign power and its own subjects.

For example, they will relinquish sovereign power over their money supply.

This is not a mark of a sovereign power.

External sovereignty concerns the relationship between a sovereign power and other states.

Without a king to rule the country, the States General became the sovereign power.

That's because for now it remains the sovereign power.

There were no equivalent sovereign powers to sign a cease-fire.

"I never knew any human creature who had more sovereign power over everybody - grown and child," Elizabeth once wrote.

But now these countries are sovereign powers in a region not conducive to peace and progress.

These sectors were not under the direct control of the sovereign power and could avoid feeding resources to the state.

It was by far the best thing they could do, he declared, to claim sovereign powers even for the individual household.

Exercising this sovereign power was the purpose of the popular assemblies.

The interregnum was the only period during which the senate exercised its sovereign power.

The parties suddenly had sovereign power in their grasp, but no plan for executing it.

As such it has never had any military force of its own, and defence have always been the responsibilities of the sovereign power.

Since the Assembly has sovereign powers, it is in theory more powerful than the executive branch.

Bring in the state, with its sovereign powers to sweep aside the city's public review procedures.

These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

The President has sovereign power to pardon under the Constitution, the way a king did back in the old days.

"The Confederacy is already a second, sovereign power on this continent.