Word: sovereign
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...major player on the block is a hallucination. Why? Because the U.N. is a fiction. Yes, it has a Secretary-General, a bureaucracy and a building. But it has no army, no taxing authority, no independent will. Because it is a creature of the sovereign powers that control it, its sovereignty is an illusion...
Finally, there is no reason why the Council should try to take on the characteristics of a sovereign governmental body. It should work altruistically as an agent for students' wishes, not as a breeding ground for future Washington cocktail party cannon fodder. Hopefully, no more of these substanceless, money-wasting ads will appear. Council members spend too much time worrying about their political images, and not enough time finding out what students really want...
Through the Middle Ages, he says, astrology survived as a scientific practice, often in monarchies which employed court astrologers for the sovereign and country. Major decisions of national policy were often decided based on the stars, he says...
...Fortunately, the Clinton administration, realizing the folly of attempting to impose U.S. domestic law on sovereign nations would deny subpoena powers to the board...
...necessary for the new administration to tell Palestinians and sovereign Arab states that "the only road to peace is through Jerusalem," Grossman said...