Specifically, the degree to which decisions made by a sovereign entity might be contradicted by another authority.

Because of the reservation's status as a sovereign entity, environmental regulations, building codes, fire safety codes and other basic legal protections can not be enforced there.

These exertions turned them gradually into city-states, as they raised small armies, levied taxes, dispensed justice, concluded treaties, and carried on in effect like sovereign entities.

Under the treaty, nation states are recognised as sovereign entities, whose borders are inviolable.

These bonds are usually issued by large multinational organizations and sovereign entities, both of which regularly carry out large fund-raising exercises.