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Sovereign
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Sovereign meaning
Exercising power of rule. | Exceptional in quality. | Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
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Their Lordships pointed out that Company was not sovereign though it exercised sovereign functions and, therefore, was not entitled to the immunity of the Sovereign.
Burgeman says the fund is divided, usually fairly evenly, into three buckets of assets - sovereign debt denominated in US dollars, sovereign debt denominated in local currencies, and corporate debt in dollars.
Greece’s sovereign debt crisis, considered part of the European sovereign debt crisis, was marked by massive strikes and demonstrations.
Other significant coronation items include The Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross and The Sovereign’s Orb, both having long-standing roles in the ceremony.
There remains little information about what the Voice will do other than what is clear – it effectively adds a third arm of Parliament (where, presently, the people are sovereign) but where some people may soon be more sovereign than others.
The Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross and the Sovereign’s Orb, which are presented to the monarch during the moment of investiture, are also on display in the Treasury.
As previously mentioned, Taiwan is not a sovereign entity and therefore lacks the qualifications to establish diplomatic ties with any sovereign state.
Amidst adverse speculation and Sovereign rating downgrades, the Government met all its debt service obligations including the settlement of the International Sovereign Bond (ISB) that matured in early October 2020.
A sovereign nation is a sovereign nation, nobody can re-colonise us.
Concerning external intervention, he remarked that the 1943 Geneva Convention article three declares that every sovereign country has a sovereign right to enforce law without harming civilians and collateral damages.
It is likely that some Sri Lanka’s future sovereign bond repayments will be financed by Chinese loans, without relying on issuing still more sovereign bonds.
In 2011, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) Act came into being, thus, establishing the Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund (NSWF) as the oil savings fund for the country.
Sudan transition: Lt-Gen Burhan sworn in as sovereign council chief (Yesterday) - Lt-Gen Burhan will head the sovereign council for the first 21 months of the planned.
Adoption of a new title to indicate sovereign or semi-sovereign status was not always recognized by other governments or nations, sometimes causing diplomatic problems.
Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity (Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant (1886) 17 QBD 54 (per Lord Coleridge CJ)).
Allegiance is the tie which binds the subject to the Sovereign in return for that protection which the Sovereign affords the subject.
Any power exercised by this authority cannot be resisted because the protector's sovereign power derives from individuals' surrendering their own sovereign power for protection.
Dumézil noted the presence of the two minor sovereign deities Bagha and Aryaman beside the Vedic sovereign gods Varuna and Mitra (though more closely associated with Mitra); the couple would be reflected in Rome by Terminus and Iuventas.
However, such agreements are only "binding on the conscience of the sovereign", as the doctrine of sovereign immunity prevents a creditor from suing in court if the government reneges its commitment.
International law Sovereign immunity is available to countries in international court, but if they are acting more as a contracting body (like by making agreements with regard to extracting oil and selling it), sovereign immunity may not be available.