Sentence examples for control over territory from inspiring English sources

"In Iraq, I learned how extremist groups exploit access to water to expand control over territory," Eliasson recalls.

It was exercised, in the main, through agreements with local rulers rather than through direct control over territory.

"This is a fight among the corrupt and the criminals who eliminate each other in conflicts of control over territory for their activities," he said.

Raids carried out by special-forces troops have been credited by both NATO and Afghan commanders with seriously weakening the Taliban's control over territory.

And the government needs to establish firm control over territory where this is lacking.Its efforts to do so take two forms.

Warlords, Ms Marten says, use violence and bribery to exert control over territory and money flows the sort of informal politics that Moscow knows well.

By this logic, Democratic infiltrators are gradually undermining Republicans' control over their territory from within.

Expansion of a state's control over territories and peoples beyond its borders is likely to lead to friction, hence insecurity, because the safety zones and spheres of influence of competing nations are bound to overlap sooner or later.

Israel, in effect, will not be prematurely ceding control over this territory — a territory that will eventually be transferred to Palestinian administration anyway, but rather only opening it up for Palestinian building and construction.

Territory is considered "occupied" when, as a result of military conflict, a country exercises effective administrative control over foreign territory.

-- Government control over national territory and borders, including areas where government authority is weak or absent.