Word: sovereignity
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...Such doubts are rarer among the American families, most of whom are parties in a number of civil suits against Libya that have been consolidated before a U.S. District Court in New York. The cases seemed to be going nowhere after the Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that a sovereign state like Libya was immune from U.S. jurisdiction. Since then, however, the law has been changed to allow suits against certain states, including Libya. While they have been on hold pending the outcome of the Scottish criminal case, they are likely to get some impetus from the guilty ruling. According...
...design representative institutions to represent semi-sovereign entities, such as states. The electoral system is designed to be a compromise between individual votes and states' rights," he said...
First of all, HSI as an organization is founded on one assertion only: the right of the Jewish nation to exist as a sovereign power in its historic homeland. We are not affiliated with any political or religious movements or organizations in Israel or abroad; we are an affiliated group of Harvard Hillel only...
...that the defendant is active within the borders of the United States of America, the judge has allowed the American judicial system to become an international human rights court with enough authority to hold one of the largest corporations in the world accountable for actions it perpetrated in the sovereign territory of another country...
...Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed back. Because the same religious passion that drives Israel's insistence that it be recognized as the sovereign power over all of the Holy City also makes holding onto Jerusalem an irrefutable imperative not just for Palestinians, but for all Arabs. And any Palestinian or Arab leader who settles for anything less is unlikely to survive politically - perhaps even physically...