Quotes About Territory

In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.

The Russian empire, it is estimated, grew by fifty-five square miles (142 square kilometres) per day after the Romanovs came to the throne in 1613, or 20,000 square miles a year. By the late nineteenth century, they ruled one sixth of the earth's surface—and they were still expanding. Empire-building was in a Romanov's blood.

We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

She was a possessive thing in bed. She considered his body her territory and she had no compunction about laying claim whenever he got near.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. —WILLA CATHER, MY ÁNTONIA

She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.

So long as one man wants another man's wife, or another man's land, or another man's cattle, or another man's silver, so long will there be war. And so long as one priest preaches that his god is the only god or the better god there will be war.

We are going to soak this rock with blood! I am Uhtred! I am the lord here. This is my rock!

the land Ida's warriors had conquered was now our land. Ida the Flamebearer's enemies had been driven from their pastures and valleys, hunted to Wales, to Scotland, or to Cornwalum, and the land they left behind was now ours, the land we wanted one day to be called Englaland.

There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.

Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.

We humans have territories too. Ours are psychological. Stevie Wonder's territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger's is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he's on his territory. When I sit down to write, I'm on mine.

TERRITORY VERSUS HIERARCHY In the animal kingdom, individuals define themselves in one of two ways — by their rank within a hierarchy (a hen in a pecking order, a wolf in a pack) or by their connection to a territory (a home base, a hunting ground, a turf).

A map does not just replicate the shape of a territory; rather, it actively inflects and works over that territory.7 Films and music videos, like the ones I discuss here, are best regarded as affective maps, which do not just passively trace or represent, but actively construct and perform, the social relations, flows, and feelings that they are ostensibly "about." In

The Bible says, "How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). In other words, we can't have any effect in the devil's territory unless we first bind him and forbid him any authority there.

In principle, it was easy to support the civil rights movement in Mississippi or Washington or on the streets of Detroit. Of course, it was right. But feeling- now, there's a war zone full of land mines which could blow to smithereens any right-thinking individual. And that of course is the territory of race.

The Mormon teaching of unquestioning obedience to authority, added to the strict military law then in force in the Territory, would, in the eyes of their neighbors, relieve the men in the ranks of responsibility. For this reason, only a few went later into permanent hiding, and they were the men who had in positions of command.

Deutschland" war der Name eines Systems, in dem es nur darum ging, was wem gehörte und wer woran die Schuld trug. Jola war Deutschland. Sie kam von dort und würde dorthin zurückkehren. Theo und sie hatten ein Stück Kriegsgebiet mit auf die Insel gebracht.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

When I get finished with you, Lilenta, every male within a fifty mile radius will know you're mine." "So

There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David

homens sao da terra, e nao do mar

I have settled, in short, from reading my own writings, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.

Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales