territorial
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“What was interesting about this conglomeration is that nobody was feeling territorial or proprietary about an instrument or a contribution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Meeting with his security chiefs on Tuesday, Bulgaria's prime minister said: "Another attack on merchant ships in the immediate vicinity of Bulgarian territorial waters is absolutely unacceptable".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
By this time, America’s territorial growth was winding down.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Contemporary disputes involve the right of innocent passage through other countries’ territorial waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It had happened before, and it had cost a territorial governor his head a hundred years ago, and it had cost another governor his political career only twenty years ago.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Twenty-eight of the Skye territorials lived within sight of Portree harbour.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2014
At the tables handsome flying Johnnies, naval Jacks in full dress, guardsmen, territorials, and just plain civics sat making conversational love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britain now has 827,000 men & women in uniform, counting the regular army, navy and air force, plus draftees and territorials.
From Time Magazine Archive
That would give Italy 600,000 men under arms, not counting territorials.
From Time Magazine Archive
The territorials who are in charge of them say that they were much more lively at first.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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