How To Use Suzerainty In A Sentence
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It would be an error both strategically and morally to accept that Russia is entitled to exercise this kind of suzerainty over its neighbours.
Georgia should not be forced to accept Russian suzerainty
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This marked the first time China's sovereignty over Tibet was altered into suzerainty in international documents.
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'The word suzerainty,' he said, 'is a very vague word, and I do not think it is capable of any precise legal definition.
Historical and Political Essays
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The Rajah, Syud Ashruf Allee Khan, of Mahomdee, claims a kind of suzerainty over all the district, and over this pergunnah of
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
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Unable, however, to maintain this unity very long, they appear to have set up in the country an Assyrian dynasty, over which they claimed and sometimes exercised a kind of suzerainty, but which was practically independent and managed both the external and internal affairs of the kingdom at its pleasure.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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Hence, they only acknowledged China's 'suzerainty' - as opposed to sovereignty - over Tibet.
Undefined
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In forwarding this despatch Lord Milner made the apposite comment that the propriety of employing the term suzerainty to express the rights possessed by Great Britain is an "etymological question," and Mr. Chamberlain, replying on December 15th, accepts President Krüger's declaration that he is willing to abide by the articles of the Convention, reasserts the claim of suzerainty, declines to allow foreign arbitration, and demands the immediate fulfilment of Article IV.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
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The delegates had specially urged the renunciation of the suzerainty claim, but that claim appears not to have been abandoned, to judge from the absence of such mention in the novated treaty.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked
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The annexation of 1877, so bitterly condemned by him, followed by the treaty of peace of 1881, with its famous "suzerainty" clause, was, I think, but a stepping stone to the war which was said to have embittered the last years of the life of Queen Victoria.
An Autobiography
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In their reply to this plea the representatives of Scotland re-assert the immemorial suzerainty of the Roman Church over Scotland "the property, the peculiar allodium of the Holy See"; in all controversies, they said, between these equal and independent kingdoms it is to their equal superior, the Church of Rome, that recourse should be had.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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A suzerainty is a vague term, but in politics, as in theology, the more nebulous a thing is the more does it excite the imagination and the passions of men.
The Great Boer War
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He was doubtful whether Mr. EDMUND DE VALERA would consent to be a toparch under Danish suzerainty.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12
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But it meant that in the British view China’s control over Tibet was limited to a condition once known as suzerainty, somewhat similar to administering a protectorate.
Have Brown and Miliband sold out Tibet for Chinese cash?
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As a consequence, Francis renounced his claims to Italy, his possession of the duchy of Burgundy and his feudal suzerainty over Flanders and Artois.
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The delighted Mughal emperor made him the Nawab of the Carnatic under the suzerainty of the Nizam of Hyderabad and thus were sown the beginnings of the House of Arcot.
