territorial expansion

collocation in English

meaningsofterritorialandexpansion

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territorial
adjective
uk
/ˌter.ɪˈtɔː.ri.əl/us
/ˌter.əˈtɔːr.i.əl/
relating ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofterritorialandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theterritorialexpansionof economic activity was accompanied by the emergence of an increasingly dense network of interstate collaboration in matters of financial regulation.
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Intelligence appreciations consistently predicted that the new regime was intent on a policy of massive rearmament andterritorialexpansion.
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However, not much has been said about the role that earth shrines played in the process ofterritorialexpansion, and how mobility and such an apparently ' immobile ' institution were reconciled.
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However, other authors made it clear that theterritorialexpansionof segmentary societies of agriculturalists was usually a gradual process and one should not speak of fully fledged wars.
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Hagiography experienced 'territorialexpansion' (p. 197) as there was a widespread demand for saints as points of reference for self-definition.
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It may be that it can be argued that it backed up herterritorialexpansion.
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They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought ofterritorialexpansion.
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You have both reached a point ofterritorialexpansionbeyond your needs and your strength.
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How are you to provide—you mast provide—for legitimateterritorialexpansionand rearrangement in the future?
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It is the desire forterritorialexpansion, the struggle for raw materials and generally for national self-sufficiency at the expense of others.
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We went into this war without any idea ofterritorialexpansion.
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We condemn the authorities which go forward with grandiose schemes ofterritorialexpansion.
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Thus,territorialexpansionis unlikely, in the future, to lead to the enriching of the conqueror.
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First there is international warfare in matters of trade and commerce, and then comes the desire forterritorialexpansion.
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World agriculture reached its peak ofterritorialexpansionsomewhere about midway in the interwar period.
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At the same time, it is continuing to build illegal settlements in the occupied territories, often based on export-oriented agricultural enterprises, and using those settlements to cement itsterritorialexpansion.
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The initial communist success was totally unexpected by the nationalists, who was completely shocked by the rapidterritorialexpansionof the enemy.
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The time-bound priests, unskilled in technological change and the military arts, lost power to spatially oriented kings intent onterritorialexpansion.
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Territorialexpansionby our ancestors to all five continents was a critical component in establishing globalization.
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