Collocations withterritory
These are words often used in combination withterritory.
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acquisition of territory
The fact of success by a people in excessive acquisition of territory carries no higher guarantee of eternal approval.
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colonial territory
This was accomplished by innovative initiatives, such as voyages to explore the colonial territory.
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conquered territory
The analysis of the drawings also makes it possible to discuss the role of the road in the integration of the conquered territory.
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contested territory
The book strives for balance in covering what has become contested territory, but at times a tendency towards hyperbole has the opposite effect.
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dangerous territory
At the same time it is a dangerous territory in which false analogies can 'inspire the courageous to foolhardiness and the inspired to fanaticism'.
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defined territory
There is unsatisfactorily defined territory and territory changes.
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disputed territory
This middle ground is the disputed territory inhabited by practicing teachers.
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enemy territory
Sometimes, they stumbled into enemy territory because they did not know where the foe was, or even exactly where they themselves were.
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exclusive territory
The first is that a person joining one of these firms is not given an exclusive territory.
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familiar territory
The authors begin in what is, at least for those conversant with disability studies, familiar territory.
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foul territory
Everything other than the triangle and fair territory is foul territory.
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friendly territory
However, it was an unopposed landing in friendly territory, and that makes a great difference.
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geographic territory
Any party may voluntarily limit the geographic scope of its application while conceding the rights of another party to a different geographic territory.
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geographical territory
By ' state formation ' is meant the process in which the geographical territory of a polity is created.
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hostile territory
To ask pilots to fly unarmed planes through hostile territory is asking rather a lot.
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hunting territory
It would not be possible to give the wolf the hunting territory he is used to, or the tiger, because the amount of land is not available.
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lost territory
By the beginning of the 1950s, owing to the huge numbers of displaced people from lost territories and refugees flooding into the town, the population had doubled to 30,000.
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male territory
Home ranges are typically 16km mi long, with male territories being larger than those of females.
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neutral territory
Interviews were short, informal, unscheduled, and took place on neutral territory.
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occupied territory
Any steps towards withdrawal from occupied territory – albeit limited – are to be welcomed.
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overseas territory
An obvious solution to these problems was the acquisition of new overseas territory for settlement and sales opportunities.
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sovereign territory
However, it appears that the exercise of territorial sovereignty has negative consequences outside the sovereign territory.
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surrounding territory
This is evident even if the surrounding territory possesses more 'ordered' qualities.
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tract of territory
A tract of territory is not something abstract or intangible.
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traditional territory
They drove the warriors from traditional territory and absorbed the survivors in 1677.
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uncharted territory
That was the uncharted territory that beckoned to the young and bold.
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unexplored territory
We agree that there is much unexplored territory here.
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unfamiliar territory
Fear of unfamiliar territory was another theme.
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unincorporated territory
For example, incorporated towns may seek unincorporated territory in a county.
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unknown territory
The older universities, however, found themselves in unknown territory.
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vast territory
In the end he has charted out a vast territory that should inspire new research.
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western territory
Congregationalists set up missionary societies to evangelize the western territory of the northern tier.
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