There is no supreme law governing relations among sovereign states.
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The ancient republics were political bodies, but not sovereign states.
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Talks in the future would be between two sovereign states.
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You know, we have an international system of competing sovereign states.
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They do not have the formal lawmaking authority of sovereign states.
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All sovereign states decide who can or cannot enter their territory.
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Green-bonds issuers now range from banks and companies to sovereign states.
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But it does not have the formal lawmaking authority of sovereign states.
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Sovereign states have dissolved into centenals — aggregations of 100,000 like-minded souls.
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Under EU rules, the agreements need to be agreed with sovereign states.
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In fact some sovereign states – China – refuse to recognize these as legitimate currencies.
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Twelve new sovereign, or virtually sovereign, states emerged in Europe or on its borders.
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It's also leaving you at the whim of banks and sovereign states that control it.
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It is solidly against more Muslim immigration and committed to a "Europe of sovereign states".
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Mr Sharman laments the "inherent difficulty of international legal action in a world of sovereign states".
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It is a "generic" name, not a two-letter "country code" name reserved for sovereign states.
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They also played into Russian anger at US power projection abroad, particularly military action against sovereign states.
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It is the first time a domestic court will effectively adjudicate on a dispute between two sovereign states.
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Eligible nominators include members of national assemblies or national governments of sovereign states — though people cannot nominate themselves.
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They are all "micronations," self-declared sovereign states not formally recognized by any official authority (other than each other).
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"We acknowledge that some plaintiffs, such as Hyatt, have relied on Hall by suing sovereign states," Justice Thomas wrote.
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However, sovereign states do not have to respect the court's rulings and there is no framework for making them binding.
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Most of all, it preserves the fiction of a conflict between two sovereign states when ultimate power rests with Israel.
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But the WHO is for sovereign states and Taiwan can only take part under the "one China" principle, she added.
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It's a deliberative body of sovereign states who have just as much right to express their will as we do.
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" The State Department defines a treaty as "a formal, written agreement between sovereign states or between states and international organizations.
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The fact that today "only" nine sovereign states possess nuclear weapons is partly a testament to the effectiveness of the treaty.
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One hundred and twenty-four sovereign states and a complementary I.C.C. are committed "to contribute to the prevention" of massive crimes.
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"All of these countries are sovereign states, so it's for them to decide who they want to trade with," Nagy said.
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It's a version of the contradiction within the European Union itself: between an open union and a collection of sovereign states.
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There were no courts to hear disputes between sovereign states, so states were legally justified in using war to defend their rights.
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The U.S.-supported Kurdish and Arab units that are now holding hundreds of foreign fighters who joined ISIS are not sovereign states.
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Among 29 sovereign states with different political cultures and points of view, such adaptations will always be complicated, and sometimes even messy.
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There's nothing virtuous about a government that is passive when foreign entities, some linked to militaries and sovereign states, steal from private businesses.
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" But they added that the UK believes this "should be on the basis of recognition of independent sovereign states within their current borders.
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He also cited the current row between Iran and Saudi Arabia as a clear challenge for sovereign states and investment in the region.
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It was no longer a pitch battle between the armies of sovereign states: a new matrix of conflict opened up in three dimensions.
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But while the European Union may be a union of democratic states, it is also, first and foremost, a union of sovereign states.
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Mr. Abrams said he believed the president "squared the circle" by linking the concept of sovereignty with a coalition of successful sovereign states.
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" They told the court that, without a stay, the rule "will continue to unlawfully impose massive and irreparable harms upon the sovereign states.
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Any power possessed by the federal government is derived only from the consent of the sovereign states as delineated in the U.S. Constitution.
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Dealings between sovereign states tend towards anarchy—because, ultimately, there is no global government to impose order and no means of coercion but war.
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Mutually beneficial commerce — and the need to abide by the international rules that make it possible — have successfully moderated the behavior of sovereign states.
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Not surprisingly, there were more than a dozen references to "strong sovereign states" and respect for "sovereignty," yet the word "multilateral" was carefully avoided.
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Back in 2004, we were joining a union of sovereign states and nations, and now they are trying to change it behind our back.
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So the issue is a stark one: Are the sovereign states at the mercy of the federal executive's refusal to enforce the nation's immigration laws?
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Mr Macron rejects what he calls "neo-conservatism": the idea that Western powers can impose democracy and the rule of law on authoritarian sovereign states.
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The Chinese government stance is that rules governing cyberspace should mimic real-world border controls and be subject to the same laws as sovereign states.
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Yet JASTA guts all aspects of this agreement by enabling American citizens to sue sovereign states believed — albeit not proven — to have abetted acts of terrorism.
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Najib also said Malaysia welcomed the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which marks a turning point "of peaceful dialogue, not foreign intervention, in sovereign states".
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The FCA said on Thursday it is proposing a new "premium" stock market listing category that will exempt companies controlled by sovereign states from certain requirements.
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Brussels is the headquarters of the European Union, but the bloc is a group of sovereign states in a time of increased nationalism on the continent.
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By contrast, the Russian and Iranian strategy of siding with sovereign states (no matter how loathsome) so long as they represent predictable national interests seems rational.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has proposed creating a new "premium" listing category for companies controlled by sovereign states which would exempt them from certain regulatory requirements.
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Its stance is that rules governing cyberspace should mimic real-world border controls and that the internet should be subject to the same laws as sovereign states.
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"We hope that there will be no point of no return, that the US and the allies will refrain from military action against sovereign states," he said.
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"It was a message to Russia and to everyone who is considering using chemical weapons in the 21st century in the territory of sovereign states," he said.
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The Commission is a bete noire of British eurosceptics, who see it as the unelected champion of centralising power in Brussels at the expense of sovereign states.
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THERE IS, SAYS Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, a need for "European sovereignty in the face of digital giants, which are now as powerful as sovereign states".
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Mr Trump acts as if he can get what he wants from sovereign states by picking fights that he is then willing to settle—at a price, naturally.
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But placing them in an equal, and perhaps even superior, footing with sovereign states could signal the introduction of state-like duties to some of these private players.
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The city ranks as the fourth most densely populated among sovereign states or territories , with more than seven million residents spread across 1,106 square kilometers (427 sq miles).
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" Without the stay, the states write in their 63-page Supreme Court petition, the regulation "will continue to unlawfully impose massive and irreparable harms upon the sovereign states.
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Had the republic not succeeded in refuting Churchill, had it disintegrated into multiple sovereign states, the world's negotiating tables might have needed to accommodate dozens of additional quarrelling players.
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But even Paet said that, while there was a need for cautious management of the environment, oil and gas extraction in the Arctic was "a decision of sovereign states".
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Although it did not reach a verdict, the appeals court dismissed the rationale behind the earlier judgment, which had said only sovereign states could claim objects as cultural heritage.
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The digital revolution has spawned a handful of U.S.-based technology companies since the 1990s that now have a combined financial and cultural power greater than most sovereign states.
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Enlisting telecoms firms will extend China's control of its cyberspace - which it believes should mimic real-world border controls and be subject to the same laws as sovereign states.
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At present most sovereign states only hold official diplomatic recognition with the mainland People's Republic of China (PRC), designating it, with some ambiguity, as the sole representative of China.
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"The United States supports international cooperation on migration issues, but it is the primary responsibility of sovereign states to help ensure that migration is safe, orderly, and legal," Tillerson said.
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One of the reasons the founding fathers created a federalist government is because the independent sovereign states would never have agreed to form a national government under any other circumstances.
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Most of the micro-territories that are either sovereign states or depend on one have been cajoled into passing legislation and creating institutions that clamp down on offshore jiggery-pokery.
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" The US supports "international cooperation on migration issues," the statement added, "but it is the primary responsibility of sovereign states to help ensure that migration is safe, orderly, and legal.
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Pence, who used his trip to Europe to push Trump's policy of favoring sovereign states as opposed to alliances and blocs, took aim at the EU over Venezuela's political crisis.
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Abascal, who is against a federal Europe but would be happy with a union of sovereign states, and would keep Spain in the euro, is also trying to make headway abroad.
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All pledged to reform — in some way — the existing Union, ranging from an end to euro zone austerity on the left to a return of powers to sovereign states on the right.
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The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which was agreed in 1961 and went into force in 1964, sets out how sovereign states can establish, maintain and, if need be, terminate diplomatic relations.
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In the midst of the Second World War, the participating nations at Dumbarton Oaks recognized the need for cooperation amongst sovereign states in order to maintain world peace and tackle global problems.
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Shortly after its liberation in 1945 from Imperial Japan, the nation was split into two sovereign states: South Korea under the U.S. military government and North Korea aligning with the Soviet Union.
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You have states, the United States, France, Germany, Italy — all sovereign states with sovereign currencies: dollar, euro and so on and they are sticking to some very strong commitments, some very strong rules.
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This is why there has long been a bipartisan consensus that United States should pursue a genuine two-state solution where the sovereign states of Israel and Palestine can live side-by-side.
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While it does manage the International Convention on Civil Aviation, the agency does not have power to impose sanctions, which first must be proposed, agreed to and set in motion by sovereign states.
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" The remarks by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, were "absolutely inappropriate," Lavrov said, "because his position is not about passing a ruling or passing judgment on sovereign states.
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"And to those who send their troops to steal land of sovereign states," he added — a reference to the annexation of Crimea, which prompted the United States and EU to impose sanctions on Russia.
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While it does manage the International Convention on Civil Aviation, the agency does not have the power to impose sanctions, which first must be proposed, agreed to and set in motion by sovereign states.
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Meanwhile, in other governments' capitals, the mere possibility that Donald Trump will be able to implement his vision for a world order based on sovereign states pursuing their own interests is beginning to sink in.
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A lower court in 2016 had ordered the Dutch Allard Pierson Museum to return the archaeological treasures, including gems, helmets and scabbards, to Ukraine, stating that only sovereign states could claim objects as cultural heritage.
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Dominica is an island state in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Pacific and is a member of the Commonwealth, a union of several sovereign states consisting of the United Kingdom and its former colonies.
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Lawmakers and presidents alike have a tendency to view Africa through the myopic lens of aid packages and give very little consideration to African nations as sovereign states with their own prerogatives, interests, and assets.
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The US must stress that the Baltics and Ukraine are sovereign states, Carle said, adding that "any further actions taken to destabilize them can be considered an escalation of tensions" to which NATO could respond.
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Although the U.S. has long pushed for a missile defense shield in the Gulf, the GCC states traditionally have been reticent to share the sensitive information on capabilities necessary for integrating system components across sovereign states.
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The main point in the attorney general's legal opinion is that only sovereign states can delegate criminal jurisdiction to the court and the Palestinian Authority clearly does not meet the criteria for statehood under international law.
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With the U.S. expressing its preference for bilateral agreements and questioning the multilateral trading system, the TPP-11 agreement is a concrete signal that rules-based trade can move ahead among a group of sovereign states.
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Obama, however, has vowed to reject the measure over concerns that it will upend the long-standing legal tradition of diplomatic immunity afforded to sovereign states, thereby subjecting U.S. citizens, companies and diplomats to similar suits abroad.
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These are the two Americas, two worlds: Obama's proposal of three sovereign states in North America, "Three Amigos" working harmoniously and diligently together on this continent, and Trump's world, here and after the British catastrophe, spreading throughout Europe.
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As if that were not enough, the US Congress began debate Wednesday on the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, so-called NOPEC legislation to lift immunity on sovereign states and punish them for energy price collusion.
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The Financial Conduct Authority's proposals on Thursday would create a new listing category for companies controlled by sovereign states and come as exchanges vie to win the Aramco initial public offering, which is set to be the largest ever.
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The FCA in July proposed a new listing category for companies controlled by sovereign states in a move seen as helping London win the initial public offering of oil giant Saudi Aramco, which is likely to be the largest ever IPO.
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Mr Orban, now Hungary's longest-serving prime minister since the end of communism, greeted his own victory by declaring that he intends to push for a Europe of sovereign states, and to oppose the development of a "United States of Europe".
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In a twist on Trump's "America First" policy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump was not abandoning its global leadership but instead reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not multilateral institutions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warned the U.S. Congress on Wednesday of the threat posed by "a more assertive Russia," including a massive military buildup, threats to sovereign states, the use of nerve agents and cyberattacks.
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European nationalists who at one time might have gone to war with one another now promote a kind of New Right rainbow coalition, in which sovereign states steadfastly maintain their ethnic and cultural identities in service of some larger "Western" ideal.
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Sixto Durán Ballén, who as president of Ecuador led the country in a monthlong border conflict with Peru in 1995, the last war in the Americas to date between sovereign states, died on Tuesday at his home in Quito, the capital.
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"If this court does not enter a stay, the plan will continue to unlawfully impose massive and irreparable harms upon the sovereign states, as well as irreversible changes in the energy markets," they wrote to the Supreme Court last month.
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A peace treaty, which is a legal agreement between sovereign states, could also cause problems for South Korea, whose constitution doesn&apost recognize the North as a legitimate government and remains dedicated to the unification of the peninsula under Seoul&aposs rule.
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The FCA is proposing a new "premium" stock market listing category that will exempt companies controlled by sovereign states from certain requirements and also be available to companies listed in London using depositary receipts, financial instruments used to represent a foreign company's shares.
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The avenue is punctuated by equestrian statues of Confederate heroes — Lee, Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson — and a semicircular shrine with an outsize column glorifying the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, the seceding states and the deceptive doctrine of "sovereign states" deployed to defend slavery.
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"The 'resolution' is nothing more than a document for interference in internal affairs of sovereign states and represents the culmination of politicization, selectivity and double standards of human rights," Mun Jong Chol, a counselor at North Korea's mission to the U.N. in Geneva, told reporters.
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"We express our rejection to the way that US President Donald Trump visited Iraq, which is not commensurate with diplomatic norms and relations with sovereign states," former prime minister and the current leader of Iraq's Victory Party, Haider al-Abadi, said in a Thursday statement.
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The sight of Mr Gavrilov pontificating in Russian from the parliamentary speaker's chair was more than many Georgians could bear, seeing that Russia occupies a fifth of the country's land and props up the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which it recognises as sovereign states.
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Although moves towards independence in East Timor, Kosovo and South Sudan were accompanied by appalling bloodshed, it is no coincidence that over the past half-century the number of sovereign states has increased in tandem with a decline in global violence and an increase in trade.
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Moreover, by weakening the credibility of U.S. exceptions to sovereign immunity, JASTA could inadvertently weaken the credibility of all U.S. judgments held against sovereign states, even if those judgments are against a state, like Iran, that the world largely agrees is a state sponsor of terrorism.
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The new rules proposed by Britain's financial watchdog would create a new listing category for companies controlled by sovereign states and come as exchanges around the world are vying to win the Aramco listing, which is expected to be the largest initial public offering (IPO) ever.
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To the Editor: Re "White House Reviews Iran Plan for 120,000 Troops if Attacked" (front page, May 14): The Trump administration likes to use "show of force" to intimidate, whether it is toward those seeking to escape violence in Central America or sovereign states like North Korea.
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A generation or two after a plague of fake news and societal polarization brought America to the brink of another civil war, most major cities in Brenda Cooper's WILDERS (Pyr/Prometheus, paper, $18) have sealed themselves off from the rest of the country as sovereign states.
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Mr. Le Maire has been especially vocal about taxing Facebook and other big digital players, saying governments must stand up to tech behemoths that have become the equivalent of sovereign states and act with virtual impunity, maneuvering to keep their tax bills low across the world.
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This clash between an elected government that ran on increasing public spending and the technocrats of Brussels encapsulates the dilemma at the heart of the European Union — its democratic deficit as it tries to manage a currency shared by differing sovereign states without a common budget or finance minister.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in July proposed a new listing category for companies controlled by sovereign states, which was seen as a move to help London win the listing of Saudi Aramco as the oil giant prepares for what is expected to be the world's largest ever initial public offering.
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That's a radical statement, because it suggests that the Kremlin sees a global appetite for Putin's established mode of government, in which Russian elites enrich themselves while keeping power through ever-increasing internal repression, and proclaim their right to use force to obtain additional territory at the expense of other sovereign states.
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I wish they would change their name to something like "Federalist," which sounds more American and could force an explanation of what we are and what federalism actually means; that we are a collective of sovereign states and regions, not a collection of endlessly divided and oppositional ethnicities, tribes and culture clubs.
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The first 17 paragraphs have generally been ignored in the flood of media coverage and commentary that have followed, but they focused on real threats, the need for U.N. action, the value of precedents like the Marshall Plan, and the real-world responsibilities of sovereign states in ways that few experts on international relations are likely to object to.
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"This case is about who has authority to regulate isolated land and water features that are far removed from any navigable waterway: the federal government or the sovereign states," the states, led by Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine, wrote Tuesday to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which is considering the challenge to its legality.
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Specifically, Versace, Coach and Givenchy were denounced for selling T-shirts that variously bore the place-names Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan, without adding wording making it clear that the first two cities are not in fact sovereign states, but Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, and without specifying that—at least in the view of the Communist mainland—the democratic, self-governing island of Taiwan is a province of China.
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In late 2018, Pompeo warned in a speech in Brussels that Trump's "America First" policy was reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not institutions like the EU. But Sondland said the new team chosen to run the bloc's three institutions of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council, had grown used to Trump's leadership style and were ready to work with him.
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In late 2018, Pompeo warned in a speech in Brussels that Trump's "America First" policy was reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not institutions like the EU. But Sondland said the new team chosen to run the bloc's three institutions of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council had grown used to Trump's leadership style and were ready to work with him.
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" And in 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave a shout out -- and assurance -- to America's friends in the United Nations: "To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective -- to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak -- and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
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