English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van soewereiniteit is die hoogste mag of gesag van 'n staat om homself of 'n ander staat te regeer. Dit verwys na die vermoë van 'n regering of regerende liggaam om besluite te neem en sy eie sake te beheer sonder inmenging van eksterne magte. Soewereiniteit kan ook verwys na die gesag van 'n monarg of ander heerser om mag oor 'n spesifieke gebied of groep mense uit te oefen. In internasionale betrekkinge word soewereiniteit dikwels gebruik om die onafhanklikheid en outonomie van 'n land of staat in sy interaksies met ander nasies te beskryf.

Sentence Examples

  1. Unlike the trumped-up charges for which his father had suffered, he was preparing to entrust the safety and sovereignty of his nation to an unknown other.
  2. His accession to the throne, or rather his usurpation of the sovereignty, a hundred and seventy-one years before the coming of Christ his attempt to plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus his implacable hostility to the Jews his pollution of the Holy of Holies and his miserable death at Taba, after a tumultuous reign of eleven years, are circumstances of a prominent kind, and therefore more generally noticed by the historians of his time than the impious, dastardly, cruel, silly, and whimsical achievements which make up the sum total of his private life and reputation.
  3. Chinese sovereignty grows daily in the new province.
  4. I doubt the Air Force is going to respect Mexican sovereignty if they decide to shoot us down.
  5. When there is a great tragedy or some form of aggression against our national sovereignty, all eyes, ears, and thoughts are focused on the event.
  6. We recognize no sovereignty except for that of the People, who in their wisdom have selected us to carry out their wishes.
  7. They sent troops and weapons to our pre-Impact allies overseas when their sovereignty was violated.
  8. Here was a haughty fräulein trying to rescue her brother who had threatened Austrian sovereignty by invading the Netherlands.