sovereignty
ਹਕੂਮਤ ਦਾ
definition
noun
how can we hope to wrest sovereignty away from the oligarchy and back to the people?
supreme power or authority.
example
At some point under our system we have to assert parliamentary 'sovereignty' against judicial activism.
Republican architecture became a proud symbol of Dominican 'sovereignty' .
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.
People have a right to 'sovereignty' over their own bodies - even teenagers.
Neither Spain nor Guatemala ever exercised effective 'sovereignty' over the area.
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.
Westphalian 'sovereignty' is violated when external actors influence or determine domestic authority structures.
Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like 'sovereignty' over the discourse he or she produces.
France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national 'sovereignty' over their airspace.
Parliamentary 'sovereignty' means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights.
The 'sovereignty' of this Parliament is the one thing that underpins everything about this country.
The Government has the right to regulate and the 'sovereignty' of Parliament is assured.
Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when 'sovereignty' resided not in the people but in the monarch.
national 'sovereignty'
Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary 'sovereignty' with the supremacy of EC law.
The two occupying powers cared little for the country's 'sovereignty' and well-being.
We no longer had 'sovereignty' over our own credit, currency, and related banking affairs.
Restoration of that country's 'sovereignty' would lead willy-nilly to the arrival of democracy there.
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.
Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the 'sovereignty' of a colonial power.
The Republic of Fiji Military Forces was established to defend the nation's territorial 'sovereignty' .
A head of state must defend his or her country's 'sovereignty' .
For these reasons, many modern Austrian economists reject the doctrine of consumer 'sovereignty' .
Illegal immigration threatens our 'sovereignty' , our security, reverence for the rule of law.
It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme 'sovereignty' .
God's absolute 'sovereignty' in history, cosmic and personal, is the greatest comfort to Christian believers.
Consumer 'sovereignty' meant the greatest freedom of choice for individuals via the widest provision of alternative broadcast goods.
We are all New Zealanders, and there should be a single 'sovereignty' .
The individualistic credo grants each of us 'sovereignty' over what we choose as the best kind of life.
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