830 examples of territorial in sentences

It was sought then, in 1847, to prevent the territorial extension of slavery.

We are so little inclined to admire it, that we seek in its territorial configuration for the essential explanation of its success.

Who knows whether it is not important to the prosperity and real power of the United States to escape from theories of territorial monopoly, those evil counsellors but too much heeded?

Is it a territorial unity, or has it been split up into sections by artificial frontiers?

The State was, in short, regarded as a purely territorial affair; it was the property, the landed property, of the monarch, who in his capacity of owner controlled the destinies of the people who happened to live upon that territory.

Germany was made by a war of aggression, resulting in territorial expansion at the expense of another nation; Italy by a war of liberation, driving the alien from her soil.

It is Prussia that bars the way in all these directions, Prussia, which, in itself not a nation but a military bureaucracy, a survival of the old territorial dynastic principle which the world has largely outgrown, has stamped its character and system upon the German people.

The term of a territorial judge is four years.

The territorial government in that time ran in debt over $20,000,000 for "public improvements," and congress abolished it.

Their authority was more personal than territorial, for incessant changes were made in the boundaries of their conquered dominions.

The revolution in society which took place under the Carlovingian dynasty had for its especial object that of rendering territorial what was formerly personal, and, as it were, of destroying personality in matters of government.

We have already stated, and we cannot sufficiently insist upon this important point, that from the day on which the adventurous habits of the chiefs of Germanic origin gave place to the desire for territorial possessions, the part played by the land increased insensibly towards defining the position of the persons holding it.

Whatever we may think of the English territorial system as economics, its service to English scenery has been incalculable.

#Method of Procedure.#As soon as the State and Territorial delegations arrive in the city they each elect a member for the new National Central Committee for the next term.

Our elaborate system of district, circuit, and territorial courts, rests solely upon congressional enactments.

Possibly the alleged unneutral acts in the territorial waters of the United States did not fall within the strict letter of the restrictions contained in these laws.

It was pointed out that this act extended to all Her Majesty's dominions, including the adjacent territorial waters.

Had the opponent of Great Britain in the war been one of the recognized powers of the world such a use of territorial waters could not have been permitted without an effective protest having been made by the State which was injured.

This course necessitated the passage of belligerent troops across two hundred miles of neutral territory controlled by Portugal as territorial sovereign.

In the latter case it is obvious that the power which claims the way depends entirely on the promise of the territorial power for the exercise of that advantage.

"In such a case," he concludes, "it may well be that the performance of its promise by the territorial power becomes unlawful, on the outbreak of war between the promiser and a third party."

For international purposes the true test is, "Could the power claiming the right of way, or other servitude, enforce its claims during peace time by force, without infringing the sovereignty of the territorial power?"

The Chancellor at the same time set forth certain general propositions as a tentative system of law to be operative in practice, a disregard of which in the opinion of the German Government would constitute a breach of international treaties and customs: (1) "Neutral merchant ships on the high seas or in the territorial waters of the belligerent Powers ...are subject to the right of visit by the warships of the belligerent parties."

It was understood that neutral merchant vessels on the high seas or in the territorial waters of the belligerent powers should be liable to visit and search, but again with the necessary caution that the right should not be exercised in waters too remote from the seat of war, and that additional consideration be conceded to mail steamers.

[Footnote 56: He held, however, that the search was justifiable as an exercise of the police power of Japan within her own territorial waters.

830 examples of  territorial  in sentences