Sentences with phrase «sovereign state if»

Canada is only a de jure independent and sovereign state if the Crown of Canada is a corporation sole separate and distinct from the Crown of the United Kingdom.

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«It's a more (pro) sovereign approach, saying that the EU can only be strong if the member states are strong.

If the United States fails to maintain confidence, then you could see other «sovereign wealth funds with 50 %, or 60 % or 70 % allocation to dollars diversify to no more than 25 %.»

If the Saudis continue to pursue their target valuation, they may have to turn to major Chinese investors such as sovereign wealth funds and major state companies, who have deeper pockets than major institutional investors in the West.

If China decides to retaliate by unloading significant quantities of U.S. sovereign debt, it could cause a significant spike in rates at a time when the United States is running a high deficit and rates are already inching up.

A sovereign state remains a sovereign state, even if it negotiates limits to the exercise of its sovereignty.

And even if the P.L.O. were to revise its charter, many would see this as a tactical maneuver designed to enable a sovereign Palestinian state to emerge which would then devote itself to the «liberation» of the rest of its lost territory.

What would the Catholic bishops say if the sovereign Palestinian state invited half a million Iranian volunteers to bolster its «defenses»?

The compromise struck gave the sovereign - state faction a 98 percent victory, even if a trace of the anti- sovereignty view remained.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S. policy, may succeed in recalling the United Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument of sovereign states in search of cooperation without abdication.

If the Bible states that The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one, the why would you think to have a special gift that seems to negate the very scriptures and aspects of a Sovereign and Holy God who does send judgment and wrath.

If the Supreme Court somehow obtained jurisdiction over this independent sovereign power, according to Coons it would not be acting «either as or for the state, but as the arbiter of legal sovereigns who need a way to live together by some rule more humane than naked power.»

If we had a bazooka or a tank, whatever a citizen required to protect themselves and their «sovereign state», in no shape or form could the Federal government limit it.

This theory concludes that a regional entity is considered an independent state or a person in international law if and only if it is recognized as such by other sovereign entities.

If you have a «nation state» then you have already achieved the self - determination to which you are entitled, which is another way of saying that you have a right to establish a sovereign state or in lieu of that, an autonomous region with substantially autonomous self - government.

Thus, to appoint a person who is clearly biased against Israel, who believes that a call to destroy a sovereign state should be regarded solely as «political views» and who justifies his legal opinion to bring an Israeli political leader to justice based on mistaken facts, if not on his fertile imagination, is incomprehensible.

If we talk about (the Environmental Protection Agency) not having well equipped laboratories, then we have a problem,» she said «We should act like a sovereign state and institutions should work.

The NTC will need to demonstrate extraordinary skills in guiding Libya from its current situation to that of a functioning sovereign state in days, not weeks, if it is to hold the country together.

The constitutive theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law if, and only if, it is recognized as sovereign by other states.

«If he moves forward with this cruel action, New York State will sue to protect the «dreamers» and the state's sovereign interest in the fair and equal application of the law,» Cuomo State will sue to protect the «dreamers» and the state's sovereign interest in the fair and equal application of the law,» Cuomo state's sovereign interest in the fair and equal application of the law,» Cuomo said.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote that if the states are to be separate and independent sovereigns, as the Court posited, «Sometimes they have to act like it.»

He and his group reasoned that if they blew up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on November 5, 1605, the king and any successors would be killed, allowing Catesby and his conspirators to place Princess Elizabeth on the throne as the new Catholic sovereign.

If you're trying to say that we could have challenged our sovereign states to improve achievement up to the level of Massachusetts within the next ten years, WITHOUT MORE FEDERAL INTRUSION, then I would say «EXACTLY — I DEFINITELY AGREE!»

If you buy treasury bonds issued by sovereign states in their own currency then the default risk is extremely low.

A sovereign debt default is never a pleasant experience, least of all if it is a country the size of United States.

In general terms, if you ask the court of a sovereign state to probate a will, the court will inquire if the will is valid under national law.

It finds that holding SOEs liable for the award debts of a state can only be supported if an absolutist conception of sovereign personality continues to be adopted and the importance of the notion of consent as a foundational basis for arbitration continues to diminish.

A state has jurisdiction over a crime under constitutional due process limits on the scope of a state's criminal jurisdiction if the crime is either committed within the state (regardless of where the harm occurs) or is directed at or impacts the state (the classic example is a gunshot fired from the Ohio side of the state line killing someone located in Indiana, which could be prosecuted in either state, or in both states as it doesn't violate double jeopardy to be prosecuted for the same offense by more than one sovereign).

And he argues that this sovereign status would offer protection to the Pope, whether or not the Vatican is a state, if only as a matter of customary international law.

The UK Supreme Court decision in NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina -LRB-[2011] UKSC 31) confirms that a State is able to raise sovereign immunity as a defence in respect of enforcement proceedings of foreign judgments and awards, even if the underlying proceedings relate to commercial transactions unless the State has expressly waived sovereign immunity as a defence to enforcement (as it had on the facts of that case).

Thirdly, a domestic court will treat as non-justiciable — or will refrain from adjudicating on — certain categories of sovereign act by a foreign state abroad, even if outside the jurisdiction of that state.

Even if one could say that such treatment reflects some policy of the various foreign states involved, or indeed of the United Kingdom, it goes far beyond any conduct previously recognised as requiring judicial abstention... The critical point in my view is the nature and seriousness of the misconduct alleged in both cases before the Supreme Court, at however high a level it may have been authorised... Sovereign states who without justification and without permitting access to justice detain or mistreat individuals in the course or in relation to their conduct of foreign relations or affairs have sovereign immunity in foreign domestiSovereign states who without justification and without permitting access to justice detain or mistreat individuals in the course or in relation to their conduct of foreign relations or affairs have sovereign immunity in foreign domestisovereign immunity in foreign domestic courts.

If what a sovereign state offers to a business in return for it doing certain activity in that state is not something upon which the business can rely in the future, we have a degree of business uncertainty which is potentially catastrophic.

Conversely, if self - determination was supported to the extent it is in the United States of America for example, Indigenous communities in Australia would be recognised as sovereign nations within the broader nation.