Like many Iraqis, he said he did not believe that the transfer of formal sovereignty would significantly reduce the number of attacks.

Lysaer's formal sovereignty broke before a grin of boyish merriness.

However, it retains formal sovereignty, and remains a state under international law.

American officials said they did not decide until Sunday to move up the transfer of formal sovereignty by two days.

On that day, four days before the transfer of formal sovereignty, coordinated bombings in several cities killed more than 100 people.

So the rebel regions remain in limbo, under formal Iraqi sovereignty but with no way for Baghdad to regain control.

The formal sovereignty of Polotsk was finally revoked in 1215.

Conscious of this danger, Friedman's seasteaders do not plan to seek formal sovereignty for seasteading communities any time soon.

In the long run, someone will take formal sovereignty.

The Chinese government assumed formal sovereignty over Macau on 20 December 1999.