Quotes About Territory

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

beyond its own borders without encroaching on the autonomy of another.

For peasants and merchants, war was a nightmare that disrupted the routine of earning a livelihood Laying waste vast tracts of inhabited and cultivated land, merely because it was part of the enemy's territory, was a proud boast attributed to Prithviraja Chauhan on defeating the Chandella ruler.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee ), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang , 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned.

Reid took note: the first two ly words. He'd found that suspects who turned out to be guilty tended to use adverbs, thinking they were being more convincing. He also noticed the way Pete emphasized "the right kind of investigation," marking his territory as a genius and the smartest person in the room. Reid would use that.

Annabel better not have headed back to England. He'd wring her bloody neck if she had. She was his. And why the hell would she go there anyway? Surely life with him was better than life with those two coldhearted English— "Nay.

no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus and many more, had in preserving their conquests. The difference does not arise from the greater or lesser ability of the conqueror, but from dissimilarities in the conquered lands.

Without territory a legal person cannot be a state.

But it's not so much a headache as possession, my head an occupied territory, and my normal self, a disenfranchised native populace, driven underground.

Thy kingdom come.' The Father is a King and has a kingdom. The son and heir of a king has no higher ambition than the glory of his father's kingdom. In time of war or danger this becomes his passion; he can think of nothing else. The children of the Father are here in the enemy's territory, where the kingdom, which is in heaven, is not yet fully manifested. What more natural than that, when they learn to hallow the Father-name, they should long and cry with deep enthusiasm: `Thy kingdom come.

Time meaningless for you exploring the mysterious regions of mountains, lakes, jungles within a blanket territory. I pull my eye through a keyhole, on a string the days are declared; thoughts are switchbacks uncontrolled.

Lewis observes that "for Muslims, no piece of land once added to the realm of Islam can ever be finally renounced.

ACRE  (A'CRE)   n.s.[Æcre, Sax.] A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, and four in breadth, or four thousand eight hundred and forty square yards.Dict.

A territorial puppy, no matter the breed, almost always turns into a dangerous dog.

Zionism, Professor Lamm argues, is different from other kinds of nineteenth-century nationalism in that it did not originate in order to bring people back to a national homeland. "It arose in order to establish sovereignty, and hence a national home, for Jews without a home … it was a rescue movement to save a people in a critical situation by concentrating it within one territory, and allowing it to take its political fate in its own hands.

What he does argue is that Israel has for many years demanded that the Arab world recognize a legitimate Jewish claim to Eretz Yisrael, but Israel did not, after the Six Day War, declare that it recognized the rights of a Palestinian entity.

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.

La griffe is the pattern of one's walk around the city on a shopping day. Strictly speaking, it means "claw," or the mark made by talons scratching a tree, but in practice it's one's signature, the mark that signifies ownership of a territory.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Of course, it is also good to have quite a few in a group who are not so alert to all the dangers and consequences of every action. They will rush out without a whole lot of thought to explore every new thing or fight for the group or territory. Every society needs both. And maybe there is a need for more of the less sensitive because more of them tend to get killed! This is all speculation, of course.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.