Definition of sovereignty in English:

sovereignty

nounPlural sovereignties ˈsɒvrɪntiˈsɑv(ə)rən(t)i

mass noun

1Supreme power or authority.
至高无上的权力（或权威）
the sovereignty of Parliament
议会的最高权力。
Example sentencesExamples
- She said that women desire control and sovereignty over their husbands.
- We no longer had sovereignty over our own credit, currency, and related banking affairs.
- People have a right to sovereignty over their own bodies - even teenagers.
- Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch.
- The individualistic credo grants each of us sovereignty over what we choose as the best kind of life.
- At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary sovereignty against judicial activism.
- It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme sovereignty.
- Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like sovereignty over the discourse he or she produces.
- The Government has the right to regulate and the sovereignty of Parliament is assured.
- Consumer sovereignty meant the greatest freedom of choice for individuals via the widest provision of alternative broadcast goods.
- There are certain things that you must not do to me without my consent and this fact gives me a kind of sovereignty over my life that you cannot legitimately invade or diminish.
- The sovereignty of this Parliament is the one thing that underpins everything about this country.
- His life and his death taught all those that knew him of God's wisdom, grace, sovereignty and power.
- Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights.
- For these reasons, many modern Austrian economists reject the doctrine of consumer sovereignty.
- No international authority has any authority over us which diminishes our sovereignty.
- The decision to have a child is a fundamental question of sovereignty over your own body, and a decision that no-one else has any right to make.
- Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary sovereignty with the supremacy of EC law.
- God's absolute sovereignty in history, cosmic and personal, is the greatest comfort to Christian believers.
- As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people.
Synonyms
jurisdiction, supremacy, dominion, power, ascendancy, suzerainty, tyranny, hegemony, domination, sway, predominance, authority, control, influence, rule
Indian raj
archaic regiment
1. 1.1 The authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
  治理本国或另一国的权力
  national sovereignty
  国家主权。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Full national sovereignty was regained in 1992 with the evacuation of most of the Soviet troops stationed in Poland.
  The treaty grants Britain sovereignty over the sites in perpetuity.
  Republican architecture became a proud symbol of Dominican sovereignty.
  With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the legal basis for the concept of national sovereignty was established.
  A head of state must defend his or her country's sovereignty.
  The Republic of Fiji Military Forces was established to defend the nation's territorial sovereignty.
  The two occupying powers cared little for the country's sovereignty and well-being.
  Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law.
  Restoration of that country's sovereignty would lead willy-nilly to the arrival of democracy there.
  The president said that foreign relations were the most important symbol of a nation's independent sovereignty.
  In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy.
  Westphalian sovereignty is violated when external actors influence or determine domestic authority structures.
  Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the sovereignty of a colonial power.
  Neither Spain nor Guatemala ever exercised effective sovereignty over the area.
  France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national sovereignty over their airspace.
  Synonyms
  autonomy, independence, self-government, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, non-alignment, freedom
2. 1.2count noun A self-governing state.
  主权国家；自治州
  Example sentencesExamples
  Is ‘confederation’ just another word for two independent sovereignties talking to each other to coordinate, where possible, policy objectives and implementation?
  According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties.
  Each individual sovereignty has its natural frontiers within which it may operate and outside of which it may not pass without violating other sovereignties.
  What we may be witnessing is global capitalism destroying national sovereignties, leading to a global government, much as Marx described capitalism's role in the overthrow of feudalism and the rise of the nation-state.
  To the Western Europeans who came to the New World, treaties were documents that essentially codified agreements made between two or more sovereignties.
  If the latter is the case, and if Quebec secedes, two separate national sovereignties result.
  It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power.
  The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society.
  An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom.
  Ancient sovereignties such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic were destroyed: nearly 60 per cent of Germans changed rulers during the Revolution.
  According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government.
  We are all New Zealanders, and there should be a single sovereignty.
  The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire.
  The most it can ever realistically hope for - even if a liberal democracy were to take root on the mainland - is an arrangement along the lines of the European Union that preserves separate sovereignties.
  It was not the supersession of one or several sovereignties by a single sovereignty, but a division and sharing of sovereignty.
  Millions have been killed to reach ‘agreement’ about the various sovereignties we now see delimited in our atlases and car-maps.
  Fifteen sovereignties cannot a foreign or military policy make, even though, were they to federate into one sovereignty, they could exert power equal to that of the United States.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French sovereinete, from soverain (see sovereign).

Definition of sovereignty in US English:

sovereignty

nounˈsäv(ə)rən(t)ēˈsɑv(ə)rən(t)i

1Supreme power or authority.
至高无上的权力（或权威）
how can we hope to wrest sovereignty away from the oligarchy and back to the people?
Example sentencesExamples
- Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch.
- Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary sovereignty with the supremacy of EC law.
- At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary sovereignty against judicial activism.
- The decision to have a child is a fundamental question of sovereignty over your own body, and a decision that no-one else has any right to make.
- For these reasons, many modern Austrian economists reject the doctrine of consumer sovereignty.
- Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights.
- Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like sovereignty over the discourse he or she produces.
- His life and his death taught all those that knew him of God's wisdom, grace, sovereignty and power.
- Consumer sovereignty meant the greatest freedom of choice for individuals via the widest provision of alternative broadcast goods.
- We no longer had sovereignty over our own credit, currency, and related banking affairs.
- It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme sovereignty.
- She said that women desire control and sovereignty over their husbands.
- People have a right to sovereignty over their own bodies - even teenagers.
- The Government has the right to regulate and the sovereignty of Parliament is assured.
- No international authority has any authority over us which diminishes our sovereignty.
- As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people.
- There are certain things that you must not do to me without my consent and this fact gives me a kind of sovereignty over my life that you cannot legitimately invade or diminish.
- The individualistic credo grants each of us sovereignty over what we choose as the best kind of life.
- God's absolute sovereignty in history, cosmic and personal, is the greatest comfort to Christian believers.
- The sovereignty of this Parliament is the one thing that underpins everything about this country.
Synonyms
jurisdiction, supremacy, dominion, power, ascendancy, suzerainty, tyranny, hegemony, domination, sway, predominance, authority, control, influence, rule
1. 1.1 The authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
  治理本国或另一国的权力
  national sovereignty
  国家主权。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Restoration of that country's sovereignty would lead willy-nilly to the arrival of democracy there.
  The president said that foreign relations were the most important symbol of a nation's independent sovereignty.
  The treaty grants Britain sovereignty over the sites in perpetuity.
  In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy.
  The Republic of Fiji Military Forces was established to defend the nation's territorial sovereignty.
  Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the sovereignty of a colonial power.
  Westphalian sovereignty is violated when external actors influence or determine domestic authority structures.
  With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the legal basis for the concept of national sovereignty was established.
  Full national sovereignty was regained in 1992 with the evacuation of most of the Soviet troops stationed in Poland.
  France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national sovereignty over their airspace.
  Republican architecture became a proud symbol of Dominican sovereignty.
  Neither Spain nor Guatemala ever exercised effective sovereignty over the area.
  Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law.
  A head of state must defend his or her country's sovereignty.
  The two occupying powers cared little for the country's sovereignty and well-being.
  Synonyms
  autonomy, independence, self-government, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, non-alignment, freedom
2. 1.2 A self-governing state.
  主权国家；自治州
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was not the supersession of one or several sovereignties by a single sovereignty, but a division and sharing of sovereignty.
  Each individual sovereignty has its natural frontiers within which it may operate and outside of which it may not pass without violating other sovereignties.
  Millions have been killed to reach ‘agreement’ about the various sovereignties we now see delimited in our atlases and car-maps.
  According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties.
  To the Western Europeans who came to the New World, treaties were documents that essentially codified agreements made between two or more sovereignties.
  We are all New Zealanders, and there should be a single sovereignty.
  The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire.
  According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government.
  Is ‘confederation’ just another word for two independent sovereignties talking to each other to coordinate, where possible, policy objectives and implementation?
  The most it can ever realistically hope for - even if a liberal democracy were to take root on the mainland - is an arrangement along the lines of the European Union that preserves separate sovereignties.
  The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society.
  If the latter is the case, and if Quebec secedes, two separate national sovereignties result.
  Ancient sovereignties such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic were destroyed: nearly 60 per cent of Germans changed rulers during the Revolution.
  It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power.
  Fifteen sovereignties cannot a foreign or military policy make, even though, were they to federate into one sovereignty, they could exert power equal to that of the United States.
  What we may be witnessing is global capitalism destroying national sovereignties, leading to a global government, much as Marx described capitalism's role in the overthrow of feudalism and the rise of the nation-state.
  An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French sovereinete, from soverain (see sovereign).

单词	sovereignty
释义	Definition of sovereignty in English: sovereignty nounPlural sovereignties ˈsɒvrɪntiˈsɑv(ə)rən(t)i mass noun 1Supreme power or authority. 至高无上的权力（或权威） the sovereignty of Parliament 议会的最高权力。 Example sentencesExamples She said that women desire control and sovereignty over their husbands. We no longer had sovereignty over our own credit, currency, and related banking affairs. People have a right to sovereignty over their own bodies - even teenagers. Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch. The individualistic credo grants each of us sovereignty over what we choose as the best kind of life. At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary sovereignty against judicial activism. It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme sovereignty. Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like sovereignty over the discourse he or she produces. The Government has the right to regulate and the sovereignty of Parliament is assured. Consumer sovereignty meant the greatest freedom of choice for individuals via the widest provision of alternative broadcast goods. There are certain things that you must not do to me without my consent and this fact gives me a kind of sovereignty over my life that you cannot legitimately invade or diminish. The sovereignty of this Parliament is the one thing that underpins everything about this country. His life and his death taught all those that knew him of God's wisdom, grace, sovereignty and power. Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights. For these reasons, many modern Austrian economists reject the doctrine of consumer sovereignty. No international authority has any authority over us which diminishes our sovereignty. The decision to have a child is a fundamental question of sovereignty over your own body, and a decision that no-one else has any right to make. Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary sovereignty with the supremacy of EC law. God's absolute sovereignty in history, cosmic and personal, is the greatest comfort to Christian believers. As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people. Synonyms jurisdiction, supremacy, dominion, power, ascendancy, suzerainty, tyranny, hegemony, domination, sway, predominance, authority, control, influence, rule Indian raj archaic regiment 1.1 The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. 治理本国或另一国的权力 national sovereignty 国家主权。 Example sentencesExamples Full national sovereignty was regained in 1992 with the evacuation of most of the Soviet troops stationed in Poland. The treaty grants Britain sovereignty over the sites in perpetuity. Republican architecture became a proud symbol of Dominican sovereignty. With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the legal basis for the concept of national sovereignty was established. A head of state must defend his or her country's sovereignty. The Republic of Fiji Military Forces was established to defend the nation's territorial sovereignty. The two occupying powers cared little for the country's sovereignty and well-being. Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law. Restoration of that country's sovereignty would lead willy-nilly to the arrival of democracy there. The president said that foreign relations were the most important symbol of a nation's independent sovereignty. In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy. Westphalian sovereignty is violated when external actors influence or determine domestic authority structures. Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the sovereignty of a colonial power. Neither Spain nor Guatemala ever exercised effective sovereignty over the area. France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national sovereignty over their airspace. Synonyms autonomy, independence, self-government, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, non-alignment, freedom 1.2count noun A self-governing state. 主权国家；自治州 Example sentencesExamples Is ‘confederation’ just another word for two independent sovereignties talking to each other to coordinate, where possible, policy objectives and implementation? According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties. Each individual sovereignty has its natural frontiers within which it may operate and outside of which it may not pass without violating other sovereignties. What we may be witnessing is global capitalism destroying national sovereignties, leading to a global government, much as Marx described capitalism's role in the overthrow of feudalism and the rise of the nation-state. To the Western Europeans who came to the New World, treaties were documents that essentially codified agreements made between two or more sovereignties. If the latter is the case, and if Quebec secedes, two separate national sovereignties result. It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power. The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society. An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom. Ancient sovereignties such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic were destroyed: nearly 60 per cent of Germans changed rulers during the Revolution. According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government. We are all New Zealanders, and there should be a single sovereignty. The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. The most it can ever realistically hope for - even if a liberal democracy were to take root on the mainland - is an arrangement along the lines of the European Union that preserves separate sovereignties. It was not the supersession of one or several sovereignties by a single sovereignty, but a division and sharing of sovereignty. Millions have been killed to reach ‘agreement’ about the various sovereignties we now see delimited in our atlases and car-maps. Fifteen sovereignties cannot a foreign or military policy make, even though, were they to federate into one sovereignty, they could exert power equal to that of the United States. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sovereinete, from soverain (see sovereign). Definition of sovereignty in US English: sovereignty nounˈsäv(ə)rən(t)ēˈsɑv(ə)rən(t)i 1Supreme power or authority. 至高无上的权力（或权威） how can we hope to wrest sovereignty away from the oligarchy and back to the people? Example sentencesExamples Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch. Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary sovereignty with the supremacy of EC law. At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary sovereignty against judicial activism. The decision to have a child is a fundamental question of sovereignty over your own body, and a decision that no-one else has any right to make. For these reasons, many modern Austrian economists reject the doctrine of consumer sovereignty. Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights. Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like sovereignty over the discourse he or she produces. His life and his death taught all those that knew him of God's wisdom, grace, sovereignty and power. Consumer sovereignty meant the greatest freedom of choice for individuals via the widest provision of alternative broadcast goods. We no longer had sovereignty over our own credit, currency, and related banking affairs. It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme sovereignty. She said that women desire control and sovereignty over their husbands. People have a right to sovereignty over their own bodies - even teenagers. The Government has the right to regulate and the sovereignty of Parliament is assured. No international authority has any authority over us which diminishes our sovereignty. As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people. There are certain things that you must not do to me without my consent and this fact gives me a kind of sovereignty over my life that you cannot legitimately invade or diminish. The individualistic credo grants each of us sovereignty over what we choose as the best kind of life. God's absolute sovereignty in history, cosmic and personal, is the greatest comfort to Christian believers. The sovereignty of this Parliament is the one thing that underpins everything about this country. Synonyms jurisdiction, supremacy, dominion, power, ascendancy, suzerainty, tyranny, hegemony, domination, sway, predominance, authority, control, influence, rule 1.1 The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. 治理本国或另一国的权力 national sovereignty 国家主权。 Example sentencesExamples Restoration of that country's sovereignty would lead willy-nilly to the arrival of democracy there. The president said that foreign relations were the most important symbol of a nation's independent sovereignty. The treaty grants Britain sovereignty over the sites in perpetuity. In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy. The Republic of Fiji Military Forces was established to defend the nation's territorial sovereignty. Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the sovereignty of a colonial power. Westphalian sovereignty is violated when external actors influence or determine domestic authority structures. With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the legal basis for the concept of national sovereignty was established. Full national sovereignty was regained in 1992 with the evacuation of most of the Soviet troops stationed in Poland. France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national sovereignty over their airspace. Republican architecture became a proud symbol of Dominican sovereignty. Neither Spain nor Guatemala ever exercised effective sovereignty over the area. Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law. A head of state must defend his or her country's sovereignty. The two occupying powers cared little for the country's sovereignty and well-being. Synonyms autonomy, independence, self-government, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, non-alignment, freedom 1.2 A self-governing state. 主权国家；自治州 Example sentencesExamples It was not the supersession of one or several sovereignties by a single sovereignty, but a division and sharing of sovereignty. Each individual sovereignty has its natural frontiers within which it may operate and outside of which it may not pass without violating other sovereignties. Millions have been killed to reach ‘agreement’ about the various sovereignties we now see delimited in our atlases and car-maps. According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties. To the Western Europeans who came to the New World, treaties were documents that essentially codified agreements made between two or more sovereignties. We are all New Zealanders, and there should be a single sovereignty. The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government. Is ‘confederation’ just another word for two independent sovereignties talking to each other to coordinate, where possible, policy objectives and implementation? The most it can ever realistically hope for - even if a liberal democracy were to take root on the mainland - is an arrangement along the lines of the European Union that preserves separate sovereignties. The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society. If the latter is the case, and if Quebec secedes, two separate national sovereignties result. Ancient sovereignties such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic were destroyed: nearly 60 per cent of Germans changed rulers during the Revolution. It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power. Fifteen sovereignties cannot a foreign or military policy make, even though, were they to federate into one sovereignty, they could exert power equal to that of the United States. What we may be witnessing is global capitalism destroying national sovereignties, leading to a global government, much as Marx described capitalism's role in the overthrow of feudalism and the rise of the nation-state. An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sovereinete, from soverain (see sovereign).
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