Sentence examples for desirable territory from inspiring English sources

Who among those workers could have imagined that, by the end of the decade, 42nd Street and Times Square as a whole would be safe, even desirable, territory for big media companies, white-shoe law firms and investment bankers?

He viewed these peoples as having been pushed back into less desirable territories by later migrations and as representing cultural survivals from prehistoric times.

Once they find an appropriate body of water and locate the best place to lay their eggs they will copulate with whoever happens to be in the area, so males zealously defend the most desirable territories to increase the chance of mating with as many females as possible.

The streets around the eastern end of the park, like Engert Avenue, were for the last few years less desirable real estate territory than those surrounding the Bedford Avenue L train stop, with its easygoing bars, minimalist cafes and messenger-bag boutiques.

Although the idea of using military power to grab desirable pieces of territory or national resources had not ended—how else to explain Ṣaddām Ḥussein's invasion of oil-rich Kuwait in 1990?—war did not seem a particularly attractive economic proposition.

Undesirable desire turned desirable.

A single bridge thread may be left in place overnight to mark a spider's territory and a desirable starting spot for building a web the next day.

With the euro triumphant, the most desirable Italian wines were in expense-account territory.

The point is, nothing like exclusive political control of any of these territories would be sustainable or even desirable, short of mass movements of populations.

Visibility is one of the most common features considered when analyzing site location; visual control of a territory is usually considered to be a desirable characteristic for a prehistoric settlement.

He was instructed to negotiate a treaty for the purchase of territory south of the Gila River through which ran the most desirable route for a railroad from the southern states to the Pacific.