A military spokesman said the Egyptian President reviewed plans to insure against "any threats and to preserve the safety and sovereignty of the nation."

The area was put under exclusive French administration, preserving only German territorial sovereignty over the area.

Some decisions focused more on the dependency of the tribes, while others preserved tribal sovereignty, while still others sometimes managed to do both.

Pho Hlaing's treatise essentially proposed a variety of major political and economic reforms to preserve Burmese sovereignty.

The American belittlement of these efforts betrays a strategy that enhances global anarchy in the name of preserving national sovereignty.

After bitterly fighting monetary union to preserve its own currency and sovereignty, Britain is likely to opt out.

In that sense the original American goal of preserving Bosnia's boundaries and sovereignty has been upheld.

In the name of preserving national sovereignty, the veto all too often promotes international anarchy.

Above all, it is a method that preserves national sovereignty.

However, the Royal Family and the bulk of the kingdom's administration fled to colonial Brazil, in a move to preserve Portuguese sovereignty.