How To Use Territory In A Sentence

The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
And having left the Broncos a couple of seasons back, next year he is returning to the Broncos, and his departure will be unlamented in Roosters territory.
Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.
Unlike several other states, Pennsylvania has no provisions for unincorporated territory.
General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.

Since Kashmir was (and is) a Muslim majority territory, Pakistan felt justified in seeing Pushtun warlords charge in from the north-west of Pakistan, late in 1947, to seize control of Kashmir.
You see, they were disputing territory with the guerillas.
This is new territory for us all. The Sun
This may have the advantage of dragging the opponent onto unfamiliar territory. Times, Sunday Times
When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization.
All the territory of an administrative chiefdom is technically held by the paramount chief.
The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
This may be due to the cheetah's prolonged courtship behavior, which requires extensive territory.
German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Initially known for drum'n'bass-driven club bangers, they have since headed into tamer territory. Times, Sunday Times
In 1821 the Kakanfo's threat to Abomey and his capability to defend Oyo territory ended in his rout by the Dahomey army, and by 1830 Shabe had been razed and the cavalry no more to be seen.
The capital of the overseas territory of French Polynesia, a port on the northwest coast of Tahiti in the Society Islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.
He was shot down in enemy territory.
Test cricket can examine bravery, it can expose technical frailties, and it can take players into new territory. Times, Sunday Times
In its classic sense, war means an armed conflict between two sovereign nations disputing control of territory.
I hate to say it, but there are at least eight colonies on the outer rim of Confederate territory that we have not had contact with since the end of the civil war.
Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
It is the male's prime function to patrol his territory against intruders.
In general, it was assumed in the early development of international law that control of natural resources depended on the acquisition of sovereignty over land territory and territorial seas.
If some extractive natural subsector gets scarce we will just substitute other sectors for it and growth of the whole economy will continue, not into any restraining biospheric envelope, but into sidereal space presumably full of resource-bearing asteriods and friendly highly-evolved aliens eager to teach us how to grow forever into their territory. From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy
The kaiser, he said, had no intention of taking permanent possession of Venezuelan territory.
I was now in more familiar territory.
One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction. Edmonton Sun
Magazine writers are mining the territory of their day jobs to write bankable novels that bring readers inside the worlds of music and fashion glitterati.
She waved me off as I set off into the unknown territory of Park Mountain.
They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory. Times, Sunday Times
If pilots eject into enemy territory, there will be procedures to get them out. The Sun
This territory has lush green hills, azure blue skies and spectacular beaches where the loudest noise you will hear is the sound of a coconut dropping to soft white sands.
For instance, an individual may be under the jurisdiction of his own laws even when in a different territory.
At present, Wallis is still part and parcel of the overseas territory of Wallis-and-Futuna, a French variant of American Samoa, since 1900 an unincorporated territory of the USA and also to be found in Western Polynesia.
They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
In 1949 President Harry S. Truman signed the Organic Act, which established Guam as an unincorporated territory, with limited self-rule.
But disagreements immediately arose over whether government troops would withdraw from the territory.
A historic referendum announced yesterday will allow them to have their say on the disputed territory's future. The Sun
Moreover, the historical adscription and real adscription of territory are also different conceptions. The Mummies of Urumchi Make the New York Times!
As Chomsky says, 'the doctrine traces far back and generalizes worldwide, to U.S. home territory as well. Bianca Jagger: The Fall of Mubarak
I've moved on from the magnums into choccy danish territory.
It is morally wrong for western powers to recolonise territory in this way, and their soldiers should refuse to engage in a war of recolonisation.
Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
The decision to leave his native Pennsylvania for the rich farming land of the Oregon Territory was not made lightly.
And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue. Times, Sunday Times
Georgia refuses to give up any territory.
When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory.
US-Soviet tensions reached new heights because of Berlin and the shooting-down of an American U-2 espionage aircraft over Soviet territory. The Nobel Peace Prize: Revelations from the Soviet Past
Any negotiations would be complicated by the rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank, which Abbas controls, and in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Islamic Hamas militants who overran the territory in June 2007. Israel Settlement Freeze Ends, Construction Resumes
Northern Territory News reported that a three-metre "saltie" spied on a group of fishermen before tucking into the shark they had just reeled in. The Guardian World News
Intermittent intervals of moonlight would mean not having to use flashlights, when he and Larsen entered the enemy's territory.
The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
Otley had the advantage of a strong wind in the first-half and not surprisingly had the better of the game in terms of territory.
States can possess "appurtenant" territory, subject to, but not part of itself, to which the Constitution does not apply save so far as Congress votes that it shall apply. History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)
Universal jurisdiction entitles a state to prosecute an offence even in the absence of any connection based on nationality, territory, or the protective principle.
If climate was the culprit, then people and proboscideans should have shared some of the same territory, at least until climate change shrunk proboscidean habitat.
Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.
She was a seven-foot-tall, 480-pound frontierswoman from the Utah Territory who could shoot and drink like a man and bend nails with her tongue.
The “ghost” plotline is coming dangerously close to shark-jumping territory, in my opinion. 20 minutes too long? : Bev Vincent
The loss of territory brought a loss of funds, which made it harder to arm and equip itself. Times, Sunday Times
Canada it was voted by the English Parliament to reannex the territory northwest of the Ohio to Canada and to permit the settlers to share in the rights and privileges of the Canadian province. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution
Formerly called the Trust Territory, Micronesia possesses only two-thirds the land area of Rhode Island, yet lies scattered over an expanse of ocean comparable to the contiguous United States.
We chatted noncommittally in the kitchen, neutral territory.
They were the first longhorns in the territory and Elisha kept them hidden in a back pasture so he wouldn't be laughed at for spending money on the rangy beasts.
Actor Patrick Bergin returns to more familiar territory to play a menacing killer.
What kind of mailmen head into enemy territory in order to deliver a surprise blow? Anime Nano!
The US purchased them in 1917 as part of a strategic passage to the Panama Canal and they are an unincorporated territory of the US, with a republican-style democracy.
I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
Fort Benton, the great distribution center, the head of navigation for the vast Montana Territory as well as Canada, was fast losing out to the incoming railroads, which in turn were putting the big freighting outfits out of business.
He was the best ruler his territory had ever witnessed and their two territories had been allies ever since he started his reign.
In Washington, Hoyos said that roughly 1,500 rebels are hiding out in Venezuela and he showed fellow diplomats numerous aerial photographs of what he identified as rebel camps on Venezuelan territory. Venezuela Severs Diplomatic Ties With Colombia
The plane was shot down while overflying enemy territory.
In short, the comic poet is invading the territory of the tragic muse.
In short, the comic poet is invading the territory of the tragic muse.
It certainly helped that the U. S. — unlike just about every other major power in Europe or Asia — did not endure a ruinous war on its home territory.
If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity. Times, Sunday Times
The army has made another big push into enemy territory.
I put it down to the fact that as he's Italian the encroaching of personal body space was just something that came with the territory.
In return the Central Powers agreed not to seize any more Russian territory, hardly much of a bargain. Deathride
Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land. Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
He also undertook to consult State and territory governments about treaties, at least where the provisions potentially impacted State powers.
Fregellae, the town which assumed the lead in the movement and either through overhaste or faulty information alone took the fatal step, [486] was a Latin colony which had been planted by Rome in the territory of the Volsci in the year 328 A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
More majestic, in central North Island, was a flight over volcanic territory.
And he does not take kindly to younger managers trying to muscle in on his territory. The Sun
It's also new territory for me to call up my former colleagues/friends as a reporter to interview them as sources with information about the lay-offs.
I love both ... nothing beats the excitement of exploring new hunting territory and hoping that new hotspot is just around the next bend ... still, the knowledge gained by hunting the same piece of country, season after season, is invaluable and only comes with time ... Do you prefer hunting an area you know very well and have hunted often, or do you like the challenge and adventure of hunting ne
The eastern plains, or llanos, account for 60 percent of the country's territory and are sparsely populated, as are the coastal lowlands.
The story covers much well-worn territory, and the dialogue can be clunky. Times, Sunday Times
The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory.
I set the goals for the territory after analyzing and developing a strategy for our segment....
If we consider the complex character of our people, the variety of races which we have adopted into the Canadian family, the extent of territory over which they are scattered, the diversity of their interests, the difference of languages and resulting handicap in intercommunication, we have cause to marvel that the Canadian nation in so brief a period has become so united as it is. Some Canadian Problems
If you don't stake out your turf in other domains, a competitor might grab the territory first.
Currently, the narrow isthmus of southern Armenia, which is squeezed from both sides by Azerbaijan has been officially considered a ‘borderline territory.’
This connection was expressed in their religious behaviour, in the pattern of closely related families fighting over territory, and in their disease riddance customs.
In the history of cartography the territory being mapped changed very little.
This billabong is part of the Mary River in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Meggie gaped at the tiny thing roaming blindly round Fee's bare skin in search of more hirsute territory, then she began to weep. THE THORN BIRDS
The premises of a foreign chancery or embassy are not outside the territory to which the criminal law, otherwise operating in this Territory, applies.
Never before captured on film, we witness majestic sliding, an epic fight for toboggan territory and the unique mating ritual of this rare icon of the Canadian Prairie.
While the previous plan would have required only a year of residency in the territory for voters to be eligible, the latest plan would require a quarter of a century of residency.
Scientists believe that other species can best be helped in ways that would allow them to repopulate lost territory naturally. Times, Sunday Times
However, as the tall white car ferry draws closer to a coastline of seemingly unscalable cliffs, my thoughts are drawn to the portion of the 19th century when this was French territory and the island's most famous resident—Napoleon—was exiled here. Downsizing From an Empire to an Island
He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory, which was often.
However, at that time, the definite opposition of the United States already had arisen, inasmuch as for some time back it had dreamed of the idea of annexing Cuba to its territory at some point. 100TH ANNIV.- DEATH OF MAJ LOYNAZ DURING WAR
The spread between inflation-linked bonds and their nominal counterparts -- known as the breakeven inflation rate -- fell to single digits on the most recent linked bond and into negative territory on older notes, a phenomenon market-watchers said they had never seen before. Japan bond yields drop
SECTION 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxi - cating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited. Legacy
The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace.
Other species with notable disjunct distributions on the Pellew Islands include the canefield rat (Rattus sordidus) (the only known occurrence in the Northern Territory), the vulnerable Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus), brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus). Carpentaria tropical savanna
But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
It was a significant archaeological enterprise advancing into unknown territory in the small towns of Roman Britain.
Some of the alleged crimes were carried out on Swiss territory. The Sun
Records are obtained from the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages in each state and territory.
In addition to Progreso Lute, he will also visit Nunavut Baker Lake, Northwest Territories Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and other places visited.
Since moms and dads are usually way worried about giving firstborns the go-ahead for new experiences, you've forged a path in uncharted territory.
In between were vast distances of open territory and rugged inhospitable land.
The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
Botha also scored the first try, after just three minutes, as the Boks made their intentions clear from the kick-off as they drove strongly into the Irish territory.
These congregations share both a territory and a set of differentiated social networks.
For many Chinese, gyms are new and unchartered territory, so there is a need to educate people on the proper use of gym equipment and fitness regimes.
The planes fly low across enemy territory.
They challenged both physical and cultural territory and admitted implicit restraints on freedom as well as evident claims to " rights ". The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
In territorial disputes, the animal who holds the territory usually has a decisive advantage over the interloper. Times, Sunday Times
Across the river, the Viet Cong territory was a number of scalped hills: it had been defoliated.
Each player tries to stake out territory and surround his opponent.
Note 48: Mazari tribespeople, whom preyed on vessels moving through the territory they inhabited on both banks of the Indus, also were identified as obstacles necessary to surmount in order to actuate the Mithenkote plan. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Thick stands of wild rye grass mingled with yellow coneflower in the new territory.
Listening to The Notwist is like stepping into unmapped territory, they somehow manage to make music which is just completely different from anything else and which does not even hint at who their influences are.
Woronov's prose occupies bizarre territory, somewhere between twisted lyricism and hard-boiled pulp fiction.
he male mute swan, known as the cob, fiercely defends the territory that he and his mate, the pen, share.
Wild boar swim through the artificial lakes to small artificial islands and reclaim the territory. Times, Sunday Times
I do not need to take it any further than to merely say there is a broad power and it can operate beyond the bounds of the Territory.
He would like an assurance that other forces will not move into the territory that his forces vacate.
You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.
This group range is in effect a male-group territory and is defended as such against groups of other males.
The head of the stock-exchange operator said Hong Kong is working on a plan to boost yuan liquidity in the territory as more investment products denominated in the Chinese currency become available to local investors, underscoring Hong Kong's emergence as an offshore yuan-trading hub. Hong Kong Looks to Yuan Stock Listings
For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent.
The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture.
Primate behavioral ecologist Sylvia Amsler observed groups of male chimps patrolling the edges of their territory and targeting rivals for brutal killings.
Eminent French aviator ordered to the ground and sent home for conspiring with unsavory babu to smuggle undesirables to Katmandu, which is forbidden territory! Jimgrim
This was alien territory, very alien, even for me.
My GPS tells me exactly where to turn and when and I love her and I am so heartily sorry for all the times I've suspected that she's trying to leave me for dead on an unpaved road in cannibal territory. What I did on the weekend -- Part 2: How do you say "Curse you, Mapquest!" in French?
It outfought them all to win further territory.
But oil crossed into new territory in Singapore trade this afternoon, with TAPIS crude hitting $67.44 US a barrel.
The Emperor's forces rediscovered human worlds, cast out alien oppressors, and claimed new territory aplenty.
Anjali not only endorsed Annika's decision to enter the forbidden PGA territory but supports creation of more invitational sporting events featuring women and men wherever possible to attract more public and media exposure for sport.
There is fear that division of the province will ultimately see a dramatic increase in the numbers of military personnel stationed in the contested territory.
The rootless females dump their eggs because they have failed to find a territory, or have lost their own nests.
At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory.
KUWAIT _ Unarmed Iraqis in civilian clothes crossed into Kuwait for the second time in as many days Monday and removed equipment from a disputed naval base Baghdad considers within its own territory, a U.N. official said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Things have changed - you can still get fish, but with entrées from $14 to $21, this is no longer eat-and-run territory.
This self-governing Australian external territory juts out, like a green volcanic periscope that has risen in mid-ocean for a look-see, approximately half way between Australia and New Zealand.
By this “agreement” the Indians lost the Black Hills, the unceded territory where the buffalo were, and were forced to choose a new home on the Missouri or in Indian Territory. THE AMERICAN WEST
They warred over disputed territory.
It is situated in Idris's own geographical territory but it is conceived by and aimed at those who are external to that space and who possess the means of representation and interpretation.
Occasionally the scrolls contain short cinematics _ for example I once sent a spy undercover into another faction's territory and there was a short video of him breaking into a storehouse and coming out dressed in the opposing faction's uniform. `Medieval II: Total War' presents the Middle Ages with flair
On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898.
As foreign secretary he resisted party pressure to withdraw from Uganda and imposed a protectorate on that territory.
Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute.
set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory
During some centuries India, as a political region, was not delimitated on the north-western side as it is at present and numerous principalities rose and fell which included Indian territory as well as parts of Afghanistan. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Woodside Petroleum says it will pursue gas markets in the Northern Territory and boost exploration spending in Australia and abroad as domestic oil and condensate fields move into decline.
The report also criticized the government for refusing to allow Amnesty observers into the territory.
But whilst Sidney may ground the truth of poetry in its ideality, he maps its territory as a profession between the truthful generalities of the philosopher and the useful particularities of the historian.
It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
Missiles have been launched from their pads deep in enemy territory.
The male defends a territory that may house a small harem of females who nest on the ground in the dense cover of alfalfa, wheat, or hay.
By 1999, all six indigenous territories in Bosawas were mapped and zoned, and there were ethnohistorical and socioeconomic studies for each territory conducted by the people themselves.
Serbia's nationalist Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica, called on the U.S. to revoke its decision to recognize "the fake state of Kosovo" and allow the U.N. Security Council to "reaffirm" Kosovo as part of Serbian territory. Kosovo: Independence or an international chess game of interests?
Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said those arrested will be taken to Nuuk, the semiautonomous Danish territory's capital, and kept in detention. 14 Greenpeace activists arrested on Greenland oil rig
She has the resources to draw us into uncharted territory. Times, Sunday Times
The ecology and physicochemical characteristics of lakes in the subarctic and arctic regions of the Yukon Territory, Fennoscandia (Finland, Norway), the Northwest Territories and Northern Quebec. Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic
However, as an illustrator, to not explore the territory where these two vectors intersect is short-changing the audience, the client, the author, the book, and myself. MIND MELD: The 'Responsibility' of Cover Art
Because for me, frankly, I don't care how deep in tantrum territory you and your little brain are, hitting is never acceptable. Monday Meanderings
As women's art regains the territory of erotica, Messager comments succinctly on the debate which ensues.
Radio spectrum can also be mapped in other ways, onto territory.
For society is not simply constituted by the mass of the individuals who compose it, by the territory they occupy, by the things they make use of, by the movements they carry out, but primarily by the idea of itself which it makes itself.
The loss of a treasured chunk of sovereign territory is not its most pressing concern. Times, Sunday Times
The aim was to establish a base camp of three points from which they could make forays into enemy territory.
Specifically, I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels do not preexist, that is, they are not "given" but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down "Kosmic grooves" that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. Unalog
Each special zone on the territory of the base has its special properties and attributes.
At the November 2007 OPEC summit meeting in Vienna when Ecuador came back to this organization, OPEC approved in principle a resolution in support of the Yasuni-ITT proposal (to leave oil in the ground in a territory with uncontacted indigenous people and of great biodiversity value), and it also voiced interest in the so-called Daly-Correa ecotax. Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
About the year 1728 the territory now known as Dahomey was subject to three native dynasties, one of which at that date conquered the other two and set up its own despotism under the present territorial designation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Did they drop thousands of bombs on largely vacated enemy territory?
Ideas of territorial integrity and the ownership of territory are very strong.
The too-muchness, like the too-longness, befits the Northern Territory's vastness. 'Australia': down-under and over the top
In Medusa, thankfully, he is once again on thoroughly familiar territory, battling to pursue his own flawed version of truth through the lies, evasions and corruption that surround him.
Part of the colonial territory of Ruanda-Urundi administered by Germany and Belgium, it achieved independence in1962. The southern portion of the territory became the country of Burundi.
The fledglings have grown and are learning fast, though still keep within the bounds of their parents' territory.
They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
Any use of military force that aims at conquest of territory, alteration of borders, interference on one side or the other of a civil war is illegitimate.
Each gang in the city has staked out its territory and defends it ruthlessly from other gangs.
To deny the reality of the divine love is to enter the dark territory where it can not be found.
Turkey; he did not claim any territory south of the Balkan, nor any part of Roumelia -- not even Adrianople -- only Constantinople with its neighborhood. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
A Canadian diplomat is blunt: "Things are going worse for us than they have during the past four or five years - the Taliban controls more of our territory than before, and we have made no progress at all on corruption. Archive 2009-04-01
The soldier and his comrades-in-arms moved deeper into enemy territory, encapsulated in their tank.
They do this by means of a beautiful display in which they appear to float across their territory showing off their enormous tails.
Three of the Virgin Islands were purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1917 and they became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
In OGR Cooperative mode, you and your team - mates face off against hostile soldiers in enemy territory.

How To Use Territory In A Sentence

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