A state with a defined territory that administers its own government and is not subject to or dependent on another power.
the internal affairs of a sovereign state
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Although Scotland did not exist as a sovereign state after 1707, it retained many of its distinctive institutions and cultural traditions.
The EU message is that as a sovereign state we cannot act in this matter of regulation, and that the full impact of popular culture media and marketing is something that we will just have to live with.
You have debt crises whereby sovereign states default on their debts.
Sweden has been a sovereign state for more than a millennium, and this has fostered cultural cohesion.
Our independence as a sovereign state, and the supremacy of our parliamentary democracy within it, is more seriously at risk than ever before in our peacetime history.
Luxembourg is one of the world's smallest sovereign states at 999 square miles.
The centrality of the sovereign state is called into question for a number of reasons.
Nepal, an independent sovereign state, was never colonized.
We no longer have wars in the old sense of a conflict between sovereign states in which certain rules apply.
They threatened to invade if it attempts to declare itself a sovereign state.