sovereign nation

collocation in English

meaningsofsovereignandnation

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sovereign
adjective
uk
/ˈsɒv.ər.ɪn/us
/ˈsɑːv.rən/
having the highest power or being ...
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nation
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofsovereignandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsovereign nation

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The policies of thissovereignnation, as well as its cultural symbols, reflect a pragmatism tinged with a defiance of established political and economic conventions.
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This dependence is only stronger for subnational polities unable to restrict capital flows to the extent thatsovereignnation-states can. 257.
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What he was after was not a modern world of competingsovereignnation-states.
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We assume that asovereignnationcannot be forced to make any debt repayments in period two.
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Notice that again at least one party to such a transaction is asovereignnation.
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The liberalist turn in the 1920s could not last for long and the critique of the supersedingsovereignnationstate transmuted into hegemonic regionalism in the 1930s.
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Notice that at least one party of such a transaction is asovereignnation.
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The only fisheries policies that have been successful around the world are those that are managed exclusively bysovereignnationstates.
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We must emerge from this crisis as asovereignnation, or planning and reconstruction will be entirely useless.
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I would have thought that one of them would be unattractive to any country which wished to remain an independentsovereignnationstate.
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She is now a free andsovereignnation, and while we believe that she will come with us, at the same time, she is free.
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This is the snag in any system of international collaboration betweensovereignnationstates.
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Surely we should allow individualsovereignnationstates to decide for themselves whether they wish to make tobacco illegal.
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We have been told that the charter would interfere with our rights as asovereignnation.
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It remains the right of everysovereignnationto defend its people and its territory.
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Any such agreement should be concluded betweensovereignnationstates, answerable to their own people through the democratic process.
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We are in an intergovernmental conference—a solemn treaty negotiation between 25 independent,sovereignnationstates.
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Lastly, projects brought to fruition on this international basis would become the sole property of thesovereignnationconcerned once the project came into service.
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Euro-sceptics believe in the benefits of voluntary, mutual cooperation betweensovereignnationstates.
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Yet we all recognise each country as an equalsovereignnation.
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