Word: sovereign
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...territorial basis, the self-governing Dominions (Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State and Malta, all of which are largely sovereign Powers owing allegiance to a common King) have a total area of 7,471,938 square miles, which is slightly more than 55% of the area of all the land possessed in name by King George V, i. e. 13,357,672 square miles. Hence, since a choice must be made, it would seem to fall upon "Commonwealth...
Professor Emerton's subject will be "The Church as a Sovereign State", discussing what is perhaps the most conspicuous example in history of civil government conducted by the church. He will deal with the government of papal territory prior to the Napoleonic epoch, and will discuss especially the relation of this system of church government to its code of laws...
Next into the fray came the majestic dreadnoughts Hood, Repulse, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Revenge. From a distance of over ten miles, their 15-inch guns belched their destructive salvos of heavy shells, and at the end of the ninth hour, the Monarch lay riddled in Davy Jones' locker...
...majesté literally, "injured majesty," with the connotation of "sovereign power." A term...
...Emphatically protesting to the United States Government against such lawless acts by their officials, obviously unable to distinguish where their own State territory ends and another sovereign country's territory begins, I am obliged to notify you that such violation of the legitimate rights of the Union of Soviet Republics, if repeated, will be sternly repressed by the Soviet Government...