<span>The right to make and enforce laws is characteristic of a "sovereign" political unit, since in order to do this the power in question must be respected (either through acceptance or force) by the general population. </span>
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
<span>These statements best describe elements of "Gothic Architecture" although it should be noted that these elements existed elsewhere as well. </span>
