How to Use supranational in a Sentence

supranational

adjective
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  • Globalism touts the supremacy of supranational bodies and accords—the United Nations, the Paris climate agreement and the like.
    — Richard J. Shinder, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Those arguments took place against the backdrop of a broader debate about how to apply U.S. law to a supranational network of computers.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The modern supranational elite watching raised their phones and nudged each other in admiration as Angelica circled the fountain then climbed up into it to await the 125 other looks.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 8 July 2017
  • Facebook has launched a thousand metaphors, earning comparisons to a cable company, a railroad, a virtual supranational government, and a grapevine for lies.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 10 May 2018
  • Daphne told her children that the threat of returning to systemic corruption was mitigated by supranational safeguards.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • His party has voiced similar criticism of the EU and its supranational institutions.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Six months ago, the architects of the European Super League had grand, hubristic visions of breaking free from the unwanted control of faceless, supranational bureaucracies.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • French-Dutch enmity runs deep, especially on the euro zone; the Dutch want stronger national buffers to protect against crises, whereas Mr Macron is impatient to build supranational bodies and a hefty common budget.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The myth took hold and, in 2016, overshadowed any serious discussion of the E.U.’s role as a long-term peacekeeper and facilitator of supranational cooperation.
    — Jonathan Coe, Time, 6 June 2019
  • The real opportunity lies in major guarantors of the financial system, such as central banks and governments, committing to a supranational form of money.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Building on its status as an international financial centre, Hong Kong has also been quick to take on regional leadership roles for green finance initiatives pushed by supranational bodies such as the World Bank.
    — Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Further goosing fears of the supranational state, Johnson wrote about the coming of compulsory European identification cards.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2019
  • Europe is trying to unite its tribes under a secular, supranational union—and having considerable difficulty.
    — Reuven Brenner, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • John Maynard Keynes had offered an alternative supranational currency, the Bancor.
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • There is a determined movement to undermine this traditional system in favor of a supranational authority.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Despite the emergence of such organizations as the EU, supranational bodies are not going to replace nation-states anytime soon, because people still mostly identify with their nation, rather than with remote and unelected regional bodies.
    — Lars-Erik Cederman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • By his account, the European Union has become an overreaching, supranational political colossus.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Despite the supranational ambitions of the EU and its most ardent supporters, national interests still dominate the political calculations of member states.
    — Ralph Gert Schöllhammer, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • The chasm between the EU’s determination to protect its supranational system with the U.K.’s demand for a bespoke intergovernmental arrangement looks increasingly impossible to bridge.
    — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • That’s a matter for national and supranational regulators to consider, especially because budget airlines are among Europe’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.
    — Leonid Bershidsky, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • On the cultural account, the comparative success of the South Koreans, Taiwanese, and Singaporeans was understood to be an artifact of national—or even supranational—character, some signature constellation of attributes.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • By pooling these industries, indispensable for modern warfare, into a single market under a supranational authority, the founding fathers of European integration sought to make another war among Germany, France and Italy impossible.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Only a supranational institution such as the EU has the heft and mulish determination to override national attempts to impose banana uniformity, vacuum-cleaner-motor wattage limits or standards for automobile safety systems.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Snowden attacked Five Eyes as a supranational organization, unanswerable to democratic oversight by its respective national governments.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • By contrast, ‘supranational’ institutions exist apart from individual nation-states, with powerful secretariats and binding rules.
    — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Ultimately, however, the answer to ethnic nationalism goes beyond narrow economic fixes; political elites must argue explicitly for ethnic tolerance and supranational cooperation, portraying them as matters of basic human decency and security.
    — Lars-Erik Cederman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019

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