Sentence examples for claim territorial from inspiring English sources

All governments claim territorial jurisdiction over crimes committed wholly or partly within their territory, including flag vessels (i.e., vessels registered in that country) and embassies.

These locations are closer to the Senkaku, the chain of islands where both China and Japan claim territorial rights.

But several Southeast Asian nations and Taiwan also claim territorial rights, and the disputes have become a continuing source of friction in the region.

For several years, there has been talk of moving a franchise to Washington, D.C., or northern Virginia, but the Baltimore Orioles claim territorial possession there.

One of the biggest US concerns is land reclamation on reef formations that would not otherwise allow China to claim territorial waters because they are submerged at high tide and not capable of supporting independent life.

Greenpeace wants to have a million names on an "Arctic Scroll" which it will plant on the seabed beneath the North Pole, in support of its call for oil drilling and unsustainable fishing be banned in Arctic waters and for the Pole and the region to become part of the "global commons" where no nations can claim territorial rights.

America may eventually probe China's tolerance by intruding into claimed territorial waters and airspace.

The groups nevertheless seem to have claimed territorial rights to gathering, fishing, and hunting areas.

In 1614 a Dutch sea captain, Jan May, claimed territorial rights to the island for his company and Holland.

That activity and China's stronger statements on its claimed territorial integrity in the Spratlys exacerbated tensions with the United States, which dispatched a U.S. warship through the region in October 2015.

Thus, for pastoralists, the brand can be considered as a functional and symbolic equivalent of national flags for claiming territorial occupation and defining which human groups are granted access.