Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ULTIMATELY, the Revolutionaries even accepted the absurdity to which Hutchinson tried to reduce their arguments. If he was right in saying that sovereignty was indivisible, that the only alternative to an absolute power was absolute independence, then they would pick absolute independence--and he, still trying to induce the sovereign to act intelligently, would be as much an enemy as the sovereign himself. Two centuries later, people would hear that leaving briefcases on the floor to hold an illegal antiwar march presaged the end of education and government as they had known it, and decide that maybe that would...
During his five years in the Elysee, Pompidou continued De Gaulle's foreign policy. Most of his efforts were focused on the area most vital to France-Europe. Like De Gaulle, he envisaged a unified Europe composed of sovereign nations that would be strong enough to resist becoming dependent on either the Soviet Union or the U.S. More pragmatic than his predecessor, Pompidou agreed to let Britain join the Common Market (De Gaulle had twice vetoed the proposal). Pompidou also sponsored European summit meetings and even let some French military units participate occasionally in NATO maneuvers...
They say we will help [only] those we choose, our friends, and this and that. What are they going to do with the excess of their oil profit? Buy buildings? It is their right. They are sovereign countries. My job, my responsibility was to propose what...
...because of the very special relationship that exists between the King and the people in this country. I hope that this leadership will continue until everybody is not only literate but has a good life. A lot is at stake in the preservation of this country as an independent, sovereign, happy, progressive state...
...enforcement agents for illegal searches conducted in bad faith or without probable cause. But that right has been cold comfort: most agents do not have enough assets to make such suits worthwhile. Yet individuals have been prevented from collecting damages from the Federal Government under the traditional doctrine of sovereign immunity that puts the Government above the law in these matters, making it impervious to suits, however justified. In some cases the Government has agreed to pay damages of its own volition...