territorial water
collocation in Englishmeaningsofterritorialandwater
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territorial
adjective
uk/ˌter.ɪˈtɔː.ri.əl/us/ˌter.əˈtɔːr.i.əl/
relating ...
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water
noun
uk/ˈwɔː.tər/us/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ/
a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and ...
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(Definition ofterritorialandwaterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is now no distance limit, except theterritorialwaterlimit, where previously there was mention of 1,000 metres.
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It would underpin the extension ofterritorialwaterto 12 miles, which we need partly for defence reasons and partly for environmental control.
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It is high time that we had something in the nature of an international conference to decide what is and what is notterritorialwater.
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It is impossible in international law to take a sheet of water 70 miles across and 40 miles deep and to declare itterritorialwater.
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The municipality has a land area of which includes the 41 surrounding islands and measures a total of including itsterritorialwater.
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While the old issues + the relationship to the great powers, territorial waters and commercial interests + remain, new phenomena are coming up in this period.
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His only offence and a 'very venial' one, was infringing territorial waters, for which he would suffer by confiscation if caught.
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They were to respect each other's dominion over the lands they conquered as well as navigation rights in their respective territorial waters.
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That seems to indicate that our apprehensions of what might happen in territorial waters were not unfounded.
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What amused me was that whenever we investigated any foreign boats they always protested their innocence, even though they were well inside territorial waters.
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We are here creating legislation which may well be followed by other nations seeking to protect their own territorial waters and their own beaches.
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At present there is no right of overflight over territorial waters including those which constitute the waters of straits used for international navigation.
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To date, within territorial waters, there are 133 marine special protection areas and 151 candidate special areas of conservation.
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It also applies to offshore installations and to certain other activities within territorial waters and designated areas of the continental shelf.
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Any ordinary citizen reading the newspapers would have thought that nothing else was being discussed at that conference except the problem of territorial waters.
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What is the position now, first of all on the high seas, and secondly, in territorial waters?
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I merely wish to make a remark concerning the limits of territorial waters.
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Permission is only necessary for surveys carried out within territorial waters and it has not yet been given.
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The towers from which they operate have been brought inside territorial waters.
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These additional powers should help this country to make conservation measures, particularly within our territorial waters, more effective.
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