1.  Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas.

2.  If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state.

3.  In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states.

4.  It was a number of years before Canada was accepted by the world as a sovereign state.

5.  The United States had refused, arguing that it could not negotiate on behalf of other sovereign states.

6.  They believe that Scotland should be an independent sovereign state.

7.  The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government.

8.  Singapore seceded from the Federation of Malaysia and became an independent sovereign state.

9.  This independence has not been recognized by the Soviet authorities nor by any other sovereign state.

10.  This proclaimed that the Republic of Armenia was a sovereign state in which its constitution and laws took precedence.