Assertion: monarchy's territory | /r/AtLocation | feudal suzerainty
Facets:
value: to foreign powers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to stronger neighbors
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: This situation can exist in a formal capacity, such as in the United Arab Emirates (in which seven historically independent Emirates now serve as constituent states of a federation, the President of which is chosen from among the Emirs), or in a more informal one, in which theoretically independent territories are in feudal suzerainty to stronger neighbors or foreign powers (the position of the princely states in India under the British Raj), and thus can be said to lack sovereignty in the sense that they cannot, for practical purposes, conduct their affairs of state unhampered.