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What does territory mean?
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territory

A person's, animal's, or group's territory is land he, she, or they claim, own, or control. The wolf defended its territory. A territory large amount of land, like a country or a state. Often, this means a large piece of land claimed as part of a country. Porta Rico is a U.S. territory, but not a state.

territory

(= district) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes an area of knowledge or interest his questions covered a lot of territory (= soil) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state American troops were stationed on Japanese soil

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Simple sentences

Angola was once a Portuguese territory.
That island is American territory.
The armed forces occupied the entire territory.
The commanding officer led his army into enemy territory.
We drove through unfamiliar territory.
Hey, twirp! This here is our territory!
What can we learn from a dog? Let others know when they've invaded your territory.
We are wandering through inadequately mapped territory.
The dog marked its territory.
I'm re-entering unknown territory.
He wanted even more territory.
This territory is uncharted.
Lakshadweep is a union territory of India.

Movie subtitles

I marked this place as my territory.
Dogs mark their territory like this.
What the. How can this place be your territory?
We both know the railroad owns this territory.
He's been cutting in on my territory and that's all wet with me.
I'm taking over this territory.
That you were to take over his territory in addition to your own.
You're not getting your play done, but you're covering a lot of territory.
Haven't I covered some territory?
We get this territory smooth and you step out.
That's enemy territory.
Enemy territory.
And if our country needs more territory do you expect it will get it amicably?
All forces that have penetrated into foreign territory shall immediately retreat beyond our borders.
To join Algiers and Constantine, they occupied a territory Abd el-Kader thinks is his.
So what's he waiting for? It's time to give that territory its own statute.
When were you on Austrian territory last?
The Russian Army has been on Austrian territory ever since the war started.
I'm taking over your territory, or there's gonna be trouble.
You're not getting your play done, but you're covering territory.
Should you be forced down in enemy territory pull this cord, and the contents will be completely destroyed.
Surely, in that vast territory, there is a place for men to live and work and be happy.
I haven't got a scout who knows that territory.
I'll give her the southern territory.
You held a gambling party in my territory?
This is his territory.
I know you, I mean I know who you are. I guess everybody in the territory does.
There'd be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer was so full of lead he couldn't hold his liquor!
Well, if they're looking for you, it seems to me they'd spread out, so they could cover more territory.
Come, come, my dear doctor. Now you're invading my territory.
They're no bunch of petty racketeers muscling in on some small territory.
Yukon Territory, sir.
Might make it interesting, would he, if I wanted to move into his territory?
It's my duty to warn you, and this goes for the rest of the territory, that any further demonstration of lawlessness or threats of violence will force me to send for troops from St. Michael to maintain order.
Aren't you a little out of your territory?
But he's the only outlet for my product in this territory, Mr. Mundson.
Isn't that a big hunk of territory?

News and current affairs

Expansion will also create a better Europe because enlargement widens the territory in which countries are committed to NATO's political values, including individual rights as well as the rights of minorities.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an invasion from Turkish territory.
Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively ruled out a northern front in the war.
Meles will be sorely missed in Hargeisa, as he planned to run a Chinese-financed gas pipeline through Somaliland territory from the Ogaden to the coast.
Our energy companies service a territory the size of France; they will all be privatized.
On the contrary, before the Civil War you could start out splitting rails, light out for the Western Territory, make a success of yourself on the frontier, and wind up as President - if you were named Abraham Lincoln.
Setting out for the Western Territory was expensive.
The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.
But Israel has managed to attack Syrian territory twice - destroying a North Korean-staffed nuclear reactor in 2007 and, more recently, striking a Hezbollah convoy - with no casualties or loss of planes.
The yen and dollar are also being bolstered as central banks elsewhere continue to cut interest rates towards zero, territory that the yen and dollar policy rates already occupy.
Moreover, Iran could well retaliate immediately against targets that could include Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other US interests worldwide - as well as sites on American territory.
Their peoples were treated practically as though they did not exist; the aggressors' only concern was territory.
In the 1960's, France decided to pull out of the NATO integrated command and asked NATO forces to leave its territory.
Because pirates committed their crimes on the high seas, beyond the territory of any state, the idea developed that they were enemies of humanity whom any state could prosecute.
But many of the released prisoners will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, a territory that is completely separate from Israel, where they might join Hamas's militant forces but will not be able to execute terrorist attacks against Israel.
All of this is part of the transatlantic community's continuing transformation from a set of organizations designed to defend territory against a known aggressor to something more flexible and dynamic.
Each state would have the authority and the obligation to provide for the economic, cultural, religious, and welfare needs of its citizens living in the other state's territory.
Cohabitation could very soon become a problem even in the quasi-democracy of Hong Kong, if voters there on September 12 elect a legislature hostile to Tung Chee-hwa, the territory's Beijing-anointed chief executive, later this month.

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