territorial
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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
It still looks like the distant Northern Marianas will be the final act of America’s long story of territorial growth.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
“It’s territorial in a literal physical sense — the ground, your backyard, your community, the park that you love.”
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
The agreement rules that out, emphasizing Danish sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as Greenlandic right to self-determination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
By the statue hangs a faded banner: Bolivia Mar. When Bolivia declared its independence it had a territorial pseudopod that extended southwest from its Andean heartland through the Atacama Desert to the sea.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Twenty-eight of the Skye territorials lived within sight of Portree harbour.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2014
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
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
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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