territorial boundary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofterritorialandboundary
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territorial
adjective
uk/ˌter.ɪˈtɔː.ri.əl/us/ˌter.əˈtɔːr.i.əl/
relating ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofterritorialandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It gained an entire vocabulary of pleasure, and one that had the advantage of lacking aterritorialboundary.
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In addition, there may well be certain international problems about the stacking of aircraft over waters which are not within our ownterritorialboundary.
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They are not like some external tribe... that can be demarcated by aterritorialboundaryand identified by its distinctive clothing and language....
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Once the corners are occupied, the next most valuable points are along the side, aiming to use the edge as aterritorialboundary.
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There and elsewhere, territorial boundaries sliced across well-established networks of communication, trade, common traditions, and strong ties of kinship.
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However, discussions have rarely reached beyond territorial boundaries and strictly local contexts.
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As a result, defining and marking the territorial boundaries between arts disciplines in the country has become a complicated issue.
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These forces enable power and resources to flow across, over, and around territorial boundaries and escape mechanisms of national democratic control.
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The nation had to establish and consolidate itself, to expand its territorial boundaries and to negotiate its role among the older and more powerful western nations.
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Far from wanting to destroy the technical innovations introduced by colonial governments, and their methods of administration and governance, they kept such things intact, and also retained existing territorial boundaries.
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They are usually drawn up under the stimulus of a resource conflict in which social and territorial boundaries are clearly drawn, and activist supporters are in attendance.
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Teubner's focus is on the legal regimes created by and for global non-state actors by invisible social networks and invisible professional communities which transcend territorial boundaries.
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Third, the two most effective discriminant functions are used to construct a territorial map showing the distribution of individual group members and the territorial boundaries that separate them.
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Territorial boundaries are becoming practically meaningless as enormous amounts of information are spreading throughout the world almost instantaneously.
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Then again, we have divergencies of views which cut right across territorial boundaries.
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Unfortunately, fish do not have any great respect for territorial boundaries.
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