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
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
A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cormorant was just a few yards inside the three-mile limit on Flamborough Head, and, officially, she was looking for trespassers, who either did not fly the British flag, or flew it fraudulently.
From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd
