self-governing

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Politics - general words
anti-capitalism
anti-capitalist
anti-communism
anti-communist
anti-fascism
interparty
interpellate
interpellation
interventionist
lab
on message
Orwellian
overstep
parliament
party politics
statesman
statesmanlike
stateswoman
subsidiarity
super-conservative

sovereignadjective (EXCELLENT)

 sovereign remedyUKold-fashioned or formal
an extremely successful way of dealing with a problem: 灵丹妙药
Love is a sovereign remedy for unhappiness.爱是治疗悲伤的灵丹妙药。

sovereign | American Dictionary

sovereign
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɑv·rən, ˈsɑv·ər·ən/
world history
a king or queen, or a person having the power to govern a country

sovereign

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈsɑv·rən, ˈsɑv·ər·ən/
Algeria was a colony but now is a sovereign nation.

sovereign | Business English

sovereign
adjective[ before noun ]
 GOVERNMENT, FINANCEuk /ˈsɒvərɪn/us
used to describe money that is borrowed or invested by national governments:
Asian sovereign funds are increasingly investing in European and US companies.

Examples of sovereign

sovereign
Taming the sovereigns: institutional change in international politics.
Significantly, in such a society, the sovereign's right of death existed for the sole purpose of protecting and, therefore, sustaining his own life.
The paper discussed the role of cattle in constructing enduring connections among kin and affines, patrons and clients, sovereigns and supporters, men and their ancestors.
He highlights in par ticular the transformation of tribal commanders into local sovereigns of clearly defined ter ritory.
The rating agencies' relationship with sovereigns is not best understood in terms of relative power - which they have gained and lost.
Long-lasting notions of civic liberties clashed with the claims of town authorities to rule as sovereigns over their townspeople.
In the study of the development of democratization at the domestic level, we have always assumed that unelected sovereigns have transferred powers to elected parliaments in response to public pressures.
The theologians interpreted that principle rather restrictively, arguing that only injuries done to oneself, to one's own subjects, or to allied sovereigns counted as a just cause.
Moreover, repression and civil strife become more likely as the sovereign's payoff from transgressing and being challenged increases relative to the payoff of not transgressing at all.
The ' community of sovereigns ' was invented as a strategy to cope with crisis and against the increasing social and political demands nationalism made on the monarchies.
In such a system, the exercise of government was, even more than usual, a negotiation : an exchange between the needs and wishes of sovereigns, subordinates, and subjects.
Whatever the sovereign's personal predilections, "he was bound to respect and support in his public office all the recognised religions of the people with a certain measure of impartiality".
The coins in this case were 43 sovereigns.
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