The phrase "applied to territories" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing laws, policies, or concepts that are relevant to specific geographic areas or regions.
Example: "The new regulations will be applied to territories affected by the recent environmental changes."
Alternatives: "pertaining to regions" or "relevant to areas".
However, it recognises Tokyo's administrative control, and said explicitly last week that its treaty to defend Japan militarily applies to territory around the islands.
A fragile ceasefire has largely held for the past five weeks, but does not apply to territory held by Isis or the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida affiliate.
Accordingly, Douglas thought that the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which had been applied to the territories gained from Mexico, would avoid a political contest over the Kansas territory: it would permit Southern slaveholders to move into the area, but, since the region was unsuited for plantation slavery, it would inevitably result in the formation of additional free states.
The same condition was applied to western territories seeking statehood.
"Israel has never agreed that the Geneva Convention resolutions applied to the territories occupied in 1967," he said.
The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule.
The Foreign Office disputes Fernández's claim in the letter that "Argentines on the islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule".
She goes on: "The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule.
