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.
They will get plenty of territorial, financial and other redress in any agreement, plus their own sovereign state.
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Peers also heard questions on Rwanda, recognising Palestine as a sovereign state, and the EU emissions trading scheme.
The resolution placed the international terror group run by Iran on equal footing with Israel, a sovereign state.
"Terrorists were able to get the world to bring pressure on us, a free and sovereign state, " he said.
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.
Under international law, Kosovo has no right to be considered a sovereign state.
Like the Chinese, Pyongyang is worried that NATO's military intervention in a sovereign state could be replayed on its own doorstep.
"Since these are Japanese nationals who have been abducted, it's necessary that our nation solve it as a sovereign state, " he added.
The militant group ETA has killed more than 800 people over the last three decades in pursuit of a Basque sovereign state.
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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Attacking a sovereign state is not something that should be done lightly.
Four years ago, Bill Clinton took a very dim view of a foreign government meddling in the democratic processes of another sovereign 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.
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.
Mr. OREN: And as the rocket expand in terms of their range, more of Israel will be dead, and no sovereign state can sustain that.
He said Israel needed its security and that he understood why there were checkpoints, but stated that Palestinians should have their own sovereign state without them.
The strikes were the largest military operation ever undertaken by Nato, and the first time it had used force against a sovereign state without UN approval.
As Biden made clear, the US doesn't respect or support Israel's right as a sovereign state to determine its own policies for securing its national interests.
The Czech Republic ceased to exist as a sovereign state when Vaclav Klaus, its president, put his signature under the Treaty of Lisbon at 3 pm November 3rd, 2009.
Critics fear he plans to create a serious of disconnected, semi-autonomous "economic zones" in the West Bank that are a far cry from the contiguous, sovereign state Palestinians want.
The terrorist that he was, Yasser Arafat took a different dimension to international politics by giving his compatriots a real and sovereign state on the historical ground of their ancestors.
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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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Following the end of the current Iraqi regime, a new Iraq can emerge as a territorially integral sovereign state with a federal-style form that respects the Kurdish, Sunni and Shia communities.
Closer to his ideological core is an unswerving conviction that the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem might as well relinquish their hopes for a sovereign state.
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.
"No sovereign state allows another state to dictate to it, and no sovereign state allows an organisation to dictate to it, " said David Polovin, head of planning for the area ratepayers' association.
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