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
Moreover, the Quero Bank was outside Canada's three-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only months after Maine announced its underwater deal, Washington sued the states, asserting that they were coveting what was not theirs: natural resources beyond the three-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
And somewhere outside the three-mile limit a rippling path of silver struck across the Ariadne's dark bows.
From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
