1.   Traditionally, the sovereign power in England resided in the monarch.

2.   As the U.S. Naval Observatory says, nations are sovereign powers.

3.   ACCT charges that system violates the U.S. Constitution in a variety of ways by relinquishing sovereign powers to an international tribunal.

4.   But this is a decision of a sovereign power of the United States and a sovereign country.

5.   Chris Patten, the governor, gets steamed up at any suggestion that the sovereign power should concede any authority before midnight.

6.   Equally well established, however, is that the sovereign does not shed its sovereign powers just because it contracts.

7.   In Hong Kong, a government spokesman welcomed the fresh reassurances by the two sovereign powers.

8.   In the United States, Indians in Utah, claiming sovereign powers, caused a panic with their plan to accept nuclear waste.

9.   It permitted the Palestinian Authority to build an airport, operate radio and television networks, and deal with other countries as a sovereign power.

10.   The Goshutes said they were simply invoking their sovereign powers to make themselves self-sufficient.