Quotes About Territory

They asked to keep any "islands" they discovered for themselves, if they discovered more than six

the first clause, King Charles appeared to accede to Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive:

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

You must so conduct this voyage of discovery that you do not encroach upon the demarcation

and lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.

It is our wish and our will that of all the lands and islands that you shall discover

We finally drove the Germans back and we entered the Alsace-Lorraine region, which is part French and part German.

I went over to Jersey and talked to the guy. I told him not to be cutting somebody else's grass, to cut his own grass in his own yard. I told him this one's spoken for. I told him to go get his own trim — which is what we called it in those days, getting trim. I told him to look for your trim elsewhere.

When a dog mews, it's because he eats him (Si le chien miaule, c'est qu'il le mange)

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

Taiwan was part of China.

How many times I have explain? I pee over there, over there and over there. Technically make it Bigfoot territory.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

La intervención militar en Michoacán tiene el efecto buscado de contener la espiral de homicidios pero el efecto no buscado de golpear más a Los Zetas que a la Familia Michoacana, dejando a esta quedarse con el campo y garantizar, con su propio ejercicio de captura del territorio, cierta estabilización de la violencia, incluso cierto clima de tranquilidad pública, pero en el contexto subterráneo de un más amplio dominio criminal.

Given the advantages of fighting on the defensive in its own territory with interior lines in which stalemate would be victory against a foe who must invade, conquer, occupy, and destroy the capacity to resist, the odds faced by the South were not formidable.

PAWS OFF, BUCKO," I barked, slapping the Gasman's hands away from my slice of pie.

Let's try that again," he said. "This is my seat. Understand?

Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it's the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we're not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.

I am not scared while I am in Uttar Pradesh. But after BSP got an absolute majority there and began making inroads in other states, the other parties got unhappy. That's why they keep telling me to stay in U.P. where I have my own Government and I can be safe.

I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.