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"Lines on maps started to symbolize the limits of political sovereignties rather than the boundless divine promises. This transformed the way that the Bible's descriptions of geographical space were understood."

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

But a terrorist organization is by definition a nongovernmental entity that operates along the creases of national sovereignties and international law.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2020

All the most recent states — South Sudan, East Timor, Eritrea — were carved from existing sovereignties in the wake of bitter civil wars.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015

The new digital sovereignties have begun to clash with conventional nation-states.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2012

At that period, his generals who had established sovereignties in Syria and Egypt, were in the practice of recruiting their armies by levying mercenaries in Greece.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John