However, tensions have risen as Kurdish forces extended their territorial control while defending against ISIS, including to Kirkuk, a contested city also claimed by Arabs and Turkmen.
It was not clear, for example, how far Chinese territorial control extended outside of the walled city, nor was such a question meaningful from either a military perspective (if there were no extramural fortifications or troops) or a political perspective (if land far from the city walls was neither farmed nor taxed).
125 of 2008), extends the application of "coordinated plans of territorial control", and the strengthening of logistics and instrumental and financial collaboration between state and local authorities, provided for by the 2007 Finance Act, to small and medium-sized entities; selecting groups of municipalities where the pacts could be implemented (Governo Italiano – Ministero dell'Interno 2008).
If unchecked, the Mali crisis threatens to create an arc of instability extending west into Mauritania and east through Niger, Chad and Sudan to the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden, characterized by extended spaces where state authority is weak and pockets of territorial control are exercised by transnational criminals.
We're shown a challenge to territorial control in the purest of forms.
But the fighting is mostly spurred by baser motives, including territorial control, revenge and criminality.
The ongoing dissolution of Isis's territorial control robs the administration of the most grandiose targets.
Tit-for-tat cycles of revenge now coincide with the cold-blooded logic of territorial control.
Confrontations over territorial control are alarmingly frequent and could get out of hand, with dangerous consequences.
Confrontations over territorial control and undersea resources could easily get out of hand.
On Sept. 16, 2010, Papua New Guinea celebrated its 35th year of independence from Australian territorial control.
