| It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power. |
| The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society. |
| It was not the supersession of one or several sovereignties by a single sovereignty, but a division and sharing of sovereignty. |
| The point is in certain areas to share our national sovereignties to together achieve European sovereignty. |
| According to Davies, Medieval Ireland was less a unitary commonwealth after the pattern of England than a clustered multitude of sovereignties. |
| The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. |
