territorial
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Guyana, a small English-speaking country at the northeast corner of South America, is locked in a territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela over the oil-rich Essequibo region.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Iran sends its oil to an area known as the Eastern Outer Port Limits, outside the territorial waters of Malaysia, a rough midpoint between Iran and China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The latter are once again facing American military attacks across their territory, underlining their inability to defend their territorial sovereignty.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It did not have such powers before the war and while the strait comprises Omani and Iranian territorial waters, under international law the two cannot generally block passage or charge tolls.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
It had happened before, and it had cost a territorial governor his head a hundred years ago, and it had cost another governor his political career only twenty years ago.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Twenty-eight of the Skye territorials lived within sight of Portree harbour.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2014
At the tables handsome flying Johnnies, naval Jacks in full dress, guardsmen, territorials, and just plain civics sat making conversational love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britain now has 827,000 men & women in uniform, counting the regular army, navy and air force, plus draftees and territorials.
From Time Magazine Archive
That would give Italy 600,000 men under arms, not counting territorials.
From Time Magazine Archive
The territorials who are in charge of them say that they were much more lively at first.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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