How to Use supranational in a Sentence

supranational

adjective
  • These systems were not grounded in altruism or the ideal of a supranational government.
    — Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2022
  • In each case, Fitch’s criterion for declaring a supranational lender’s loan to be non-performing (six months overdue) has been met.
    — Bright Simons, semafor.com, 9 June 2025
  • To avoid delays, launch authority could be delegated to a supranational body.
    — Florence Gaub, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • 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
  • Key to this outcome is a complex struggle between national tax sovereignty and supranational authority.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Decision-making over the use of force remains at the national level; such choices are not simply handed over to a supranational organization.
    — John Deni, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • His party has voiced similar criticism of the EU and its supranational institutions.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Europe is trying to unite its tribes under a secular, supranational union—and having considerable difficulty.
    — Reuven Brenner, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • The Kremlin has threatened to take action against the EU if the supranational organization follows through with its reparations loan.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deep integration of trade and finance, enabled by markets subject to supranational rules, limits the room for democratic bargains tailored to national histories and preferences.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • By his account, the European Union has become an overreaching, supranational political colossus.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • John Maynard Keynes had offered an alternative supranational currency, the Bancor.
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Further goosing fears of the supranational state, Johnson wrote about the coming of compulsory European identification cards.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2019
  • 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
  • The only plausible way Europe can achieve what the authors lay out is by turning the European Union into a supranational empire, with all the resultant repressions that come from creating such an entity.
    — Sumantra Maitra, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • By contrast, ‘supranational’ institutions exist apart from individual nation-states, with powerful secretariats and binding rules.
    — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Snowden attacked Five Eyes as a supranational organization, unanswerable to democratic oversight by its respective national governments.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • 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
  • In the early 2000s, several member states of the European Union engaged in creative accounting in order to artificially comply with supranational fiscal rules.
    — Luis R. Martínez, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2023
  • 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
  • While investors have balked at Treasuries recently, demand has surged for debt issued by sovereign, supranational and agencies (SSA) like the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026

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