NOUN
- the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction
How To Use territorial waters In A Sentence
- Various schemes for mining Norwegian territorial waters were considered in London.
- For our purposes the term pirate applies to all ships attacked while under way, either on the high seas or in territorial waters. 'Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas'
- Heaven forbid that she should wander into any of his territorial waters.
- It is not a good policy to "internationalize" bi-lateral border disputes or "militarize" the vicinities of other nation's territorial waters. Fred Teng: Maritime Diplomacy Necessary for Cyber Security
- The main roles of the corvettes will be in patrol and surveillance, minelaying, interception and other anti-surface warfare operations in the United Arab Emirate's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone.
- They forbid any vessels to enter their territorial waters.
- SPQR: That the ship was outside territorial waters is meaningless, its destination and purpose was known. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
- Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship set sail on Friday -- the first time in recent history that the nation has deployed ships on a potential combat mission well beyond its territorial waters.
- North Korea on Tuesday said it fired its artillery in response to a South Korean artillery shell landing in its territorial waters.
- We accept the outcome of the inquiry, without prejudice to the unsettled question of territorial waters.
