sovereign rights

With his approval the English began to exercise sovereign rights over their strip of land.

That is one source of the nation's sovereign rights.

These sovereign rights never deposed, only the territories were lost.

Aside from the issue of sovereign rights, there are questions of international law.

Everybody living on the rock had to buy stock, and she talked a lot about sovereign rights and government by the people.

For the first time in history, nations are ceding sovereign rights to a federal European institution.

China is now more flexible in practice, but the doctrine of absolute sovereign rights remains central to its foreign policy.

The symbolic goal was the craving to assert sovereign rights.

Following long European precedent, both sides recognized only limited sovereign rights of the indigenous population.

The right to issue coins is one of the most fundamental sovereign rights of a country.

"The tests are a violation of the sovereign rights of our country," he said.

Israel declared it would regard such a project as an infringement of its sovereign rights.

The Indians, claiming sovereign rights to set their own tax rates, simply decline to levy any taxes at all.

For example, what is the control and restraint on arms exports going to do to the sovereign rights of Member States?

They are regions with sovereign rights, which they may exercise to take decisions on their own matters.

In 1429, the sovereign rights were granted to Bremgarten.

These pacts affirmed the sovereign rights of the Baltic states.

The pledge was never honoured, and the Counts managed to acquire further sovereign rights in 1422.

Sovereign rights over the management of the resources of the seabed and water column.

Monaco has also agreed to exercise its sovereign rights in conformity with French interests.

In 1854 the Portuguese offered the Dutch the sovereign rights for sale.

In 1582, the city of Freiburg acquired most of the sovereign rights.

We accept no spheres of influence that deny the sovereign rights of nations.

This expansion of sovereign rights, he said, would "advance the development of ocean resources."

The citizens want to decide themselves whether they will hand over their sovereign rights to a European super-state without a democratic or historical framework.