three-mile limit

Example Sentences

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If the field stretches beyond the three-mile limit of state waters, Caelus would need a federal lease to tap those reserves.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2016

Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Virginia are also eager to secure permits and to lease blocks from the federal government in waters beyond the three-mile limit of state control.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2010

Then comes the first word from headquarters: "Captain, they want to know the feasibility of intercepting him before he reaches the three-mile limit."

From Time Magazine Archive

No sooner had the ship slipped across the three-mile limit outside hurricane-roiled New York harbor than its gambling salon busted wide open.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the men who hunted with guns at sea, instead of with clubs on land, could not be controlled unless the world would consent to an American police beyond the three-mile limit.

From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.