In 1918, The Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence as a sovereign state.
An appeal court, however, ruled that an act of war must be committed by a sovereign state.
Peers also heard questions on Rwanda, recognising Palestine as a sovereign state, and the EU emissions trading scheme.
Of course we should always act with care when it comes to the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
And that Zimbabwe is a sovereign state which should handle its own affairs.
Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
Attacking a sovereign state is not something that should be done lightly.
Matters are not made any easier by Mr Denktash's demand that his regime should be internationally recognised as a sovereign state before negotiations begin.
But whatever Britain's misgivings about granting independence to this sandcastle, with all the privileges and status of a sovereign state, it had no doubt that Vere Bird was its natural leader.
Guinea beat Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso before the 1-1 draw with Malawi that triggered government intervention with Sangare saying "Guinea was a sovereign state that would not be dictated to by Fifa".
Going back to the point I just made to Lester, we support actions and words by each side that move the parties closer to direct negotiations, because that is the only way that the Palestinians will achieve their goal of a sovereign state, and, as part of that, the Israelis will achieve the kind of security that they greatly deserve in a Jewish state.
It is both a small sovereign state with an impressive diplomatic service, and a transnational non-government organisation that makes every other NGO seem puny.
Arafat was unable to build a completely sovereign state in the modern sense and departed from this world, which was extremely regrettable.
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Ending this conflict, achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and establishing a sovereign Palestinian state would therefore take such an evocative issue away from Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas.
We had an opportunity to discuss the situation with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we both agree that peace is in the interest of everyone -- a secure Israel side-by-side with a sovereign Palestinian state.
Mr Burt restated the support of successive UK governments for a two-state solution with a "secure Israel living alongside a sovereign and viable Palestinian state".
This is mainly because in the last four years Africa has learned to relate to President Obama as a leader of another sovereign state and not as a relative of whom much is expected.
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The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state.
Yet many of them may still be prepared to make such concessions if a viable, sovereign and contiguous state, free from settler encroachment and from military rule, were eventually to ensue.
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And we agreed to coordinate closely in encouraging the parties to sit down around the negotiating table and to resolve this issue in a way that creates a Palestinian state that is sovereign and an Israeli state that is secure, the two states living side by side in peace.
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The two, he added, had "a common interest in putting an end to the violence in the country and launching a peace settlement preserving Syria as an integral and sovereign state".
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It struck me as a lonely odyssey, but Mr. Boss says he has plenty of support, starting with Phil Schrader, editor and publisher of the Sovereign, a small circulation monthly specializing in news about the surveillance state and UFOs.
Russia is poor enough and has stable enough state finances, it has by a very wide margin the smallest sovereign debt burden of any large country, that a government that is truly committed to achieving 6% GDP growth should be able to achieve that goal, at least for a good 5 or 6 years.
But a good deal of it is held in pockets known as sovereign wealth funds--state-directed investment pools whose money will not be welcomed if it portends control by mercantilist foreign governments.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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When it was necessary to demonstrate the courage of a sovereign, which Herzl spoke of, when it was necessary to dare and demand from the world the Jewish State and sovereignty over that state, the nation's representatives issued no such demand.
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