11.   To storm the residence, Peru needs the permission of the Japanese government, which has sovereignty over it.

12.   Turkish officials said that since Baghdad did not have a presence in the north it did not have sovereignty over the area.

13.   While the Jordanian Parliament has more power than the legislatures of most Arab countries, the king has near total sovereignty to override or even dissolve it.

14.   Although Yugoslavia still has sovereignty over Kosovo, few Serbs have remained in the province, which is likely to seek full independence once the peacekeeping arrangement expires.

15.   Bar-Illan said Friday that a Palestinian state next to Israel should not have unlimited sovereignty.

16.   Ben-Ami said both sides must have symbolic sovereignty on the hill where holy sites are located.

17.   But Israel has sovereignty.

18.   China has demanded that Chen first agree that the Beijing government has sovereignty over the island.

19.   China says it has had sovereignty over Tibet for centuries.

20.   China also insists it has sovereignty over all the islands, while Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines claim some of them.