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high seas

noun as in open sea

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Still, none of this may appease certain Norwegian regulars, who told MarketWatch that the new restrictions speak to a nickel-and-diming approach that takes the fun out of sailing the high seas.

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Federal troops are wreaking havoc in the streets, people are being abducted and sent to prison camps — or disappeared entirely — and the military is executing orders to murder foreign civilians on the high seas.

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They are murdering civilians on the high seas on the president’s order.

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Three years ago countries agreed that 30% of the world's national and international waters - high seas - must be protected by 2030 to help depleted marine life recover.

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Nor does the right to life change depending on whether killings took place in territorial waters or on the high seas.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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