Sentence examples for abandoned territory from inspiring English sources

The Nascar team is studying a site near the Goethals Bridge which once housed an oil-tank farm but is now abandoned territory.

SITE pioneered the warehouse district two decades ago, breaking new ground in a derelict and nearly abandoned territory.

Some of the new evolutionists (led by Leslie White) reclaimed the abandoned territory of Victorian social theory, arguing for a coherent world history of human development, through a succession of stages, from a common primitive base.

The possibility of a major battle for Aleppo came as Turkey's prime minister injected a new element of tension into the Syrian conflict, asserting that Syrian forces had abandoned territories close to the Turkish border that had since been occupied by Kurdish militants hostile to Turkey.

Today, Mr. Zenawi spoke from a position of strength: Ethiopia has pressed deeply into Eritrean territory, saying it will not leave until Eritrea abandons territory it captured in the last two years.

Reading headlines from Syria, or watching the news from Iraq – where an army which had been trained and equipped at enormous expense simply laid down their weapons and ran away, abandoning territory that had cost British and American troops their lives –it has been impossible to resist the sensation, in the words of the great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, that this was "deja vu all over again".

Even Mill abandoned this territory towards the end of his life.

He abandoned that territory the same year, however, and was given a much larger tract north of the Sainte-Croix River. Sainte-Croix River

In 1675, soon after a battle in which nearly 1,000 members of the tribe were killed or captured, the Narraganset abandoned their territory.

A year after the French landed, the British established a settlement at Port Egmont on West Falkland, but abandoned the territory in 1774.

When the Romans abandoned the territory almost 200 years later, they left behind colonists who are the ancestors of Romanians today.