sovereign power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsovereignandpower
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sovereign
adjective
uk/ˈsɒv.ər.ɪn/us/ˈsɑːv.rən/
having the highest power or being ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofsovereignandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Certain functions can be devolved downwards, but notsovereignpower, whensovereignpoweris actually moving upwards.
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Put briefly, the state of exception is thesovereignpowerto suspend the constitution for the sake of its protection.
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Theirsovereignpower, which they could openly demonstrate in those weeks, continues to be celebrated by public executions.
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They were in turn liable to pay tribute to thesovereignpower, whose demands were, however, resisted whenever possible.
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That is thesovereignpowerunder our constitution.
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The fundamental question is: who has thesovereignpower?
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Such inquiries are for thesovereignpowerconcerned.
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You have given themsovereignpowerin this country.
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There are two distinguishing marks of asovereignpower.
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I should like to see us make a tremendous attempt to coalesce thatsovereignpowerand make it asovereignpowerby consent.
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Despite the loss of his army, and more direct subordination to thesovereignpower, he continued to maintain all the trappings of royalty.
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Natural law effectively delegated to thesovereignpowera natural right of permission to determine the outward form of worship in things that were essentially indifferent, or adiaphora.
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The day of thesovereignpowerof the small country has gone, and gone for ever.
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The people have entrusted to a particular and specified institution thatsovereignpowerover themselves.
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They do not think of political power as beingsovereignpowerbased in a particular institution or particular place.
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It is only right that, as the formersovereignpower, we do all we can to provide assistance.
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Will the sovereign people accept the responsibility of theirsovereignpowerand continue to face the consequences?
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So the theoreticalsovereignpowerwould assume these duties, whatever they turn out to be and whoever interprets them.
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How ironic it is that we should be bringing in the bright lights of the television cameras in the twilight of oursovereignpower.
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That illustrates that it is quite unnecessary to constrain thesovereignpowerof individual countries to set their own indirect tax rates.
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Exercising thissovereignpowerwas the purpose of the popular assemblies.
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Normatively the passage between eras involves a transformative armed struggle forsovereignpowerbetween rivals.
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The banks thus exercise what has always, and justly, been considered a prerogative ofsovereignpower.
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When the king died, thatsovereignpowernaturally reverted to the "patres".
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The ability to keep the peace was seen as an expression ofsovereignpower.
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