Sentence examples for islands over which from inspiring English sources
All claimants apart from Brunei have built on one or more of the tiny rocks and islands over which they claim sovereignty.
See articleVietnam accused China of firing on one of its fishing vessels in waters near the Chinese-occupied Paracel islands, over which China and Vietnam fought in 1974.
Hector Timerman brought up the subject of the disputed south Atlantic islands, over which Britain and Argentina fought a war in 1982, during a EU-Latin American summit involving more than 60 countries, they said.
The British government rejected the law, arguing it could not be applied to the zone around the Falkland islands over which Britain had legal ownership.
The territory are small Japanese islands over which the Republic of Korea started to seek sovereignty after the WWII and has been occupying since 1952.
The government of Taiwan, the self-ruling island over which Beijing claims sovereignty, has been inching toward more amicable relations with the mainland in recent years.
The first election under the new system will be held next year and a referendum by 2012 could remove landowners' seats entirely.Two campaigners for reform are Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, twin tycoons who live part-time on Brecqhou, a nearby tiny island over which Sark claims overlordship.
So the spring-break theme park of Spooky Island, over which the sinister and goofy Emil Mondavarious Rowan Atkinsonn) presides, turns out to be the center of an elaborate conspiracy involving the theft of human souls (which swim around in a giant fishbowl) and some ancient tribal mumbo-jumbo, the goal of which is world domination.
South Georgia is today part of the Falkland Island Dependencies, over which the British government is sovereign.
"They wanted separate dressing areas open to an island of drawers, over which they could discuss the plans for the day," she said.
China couches many of its statements by reference to the islands, islets and rocks over which it claims sovereignty, and their associated waters, as if it were following UNCLOS.
