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
The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The states lost on legal principle in court, then won from Congress concessions within the three-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Colleen was pretty well inshore then, and yet safe outside the three-mile limit in our judgment.
From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
