This has been true of a number of protectorates in Africa, and notably of Egypt, which is still nominally ruled by the Khedive under the suzerainty of the Turkish Sultan, but is practically governed by a British agent.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Though they had acknowledged the suzerainty of the Cuzco emperors, they were ruled by their own chiefs.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
England still ruled us on the ocean where she searched our ships as she pleased and claimed a suzerainty over us as she has claimed a suzerainty over the Boers, and for the same contemptible purpose, to enable her to watch her chance to destroy our independence.
"The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal""
Sydney G. Fisher