Sentence examples for its coasts from inspiring English sources

This week, Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi of Libya said that NATO's military intervention had prevented Libya from patrolling its coasts, as it had done under the 2008 treaty with Italy.

The European Union has already used some naval power to try and stop smuggling ships off its coasts, but it's done little to stem the tide.

The package would accede to a long-standing Japanese demand by allowing it to hunt minke whales near its coasts for an initial five-year period.

Indeed, just after Hagel left Manila a long scheduled visit to China by President Aquino fell through, with Chinese officials insisting that the Philippines back away from various legal challenges it has filed against Chinese maritime moves off its coasts.

Not only did it have to face the privateers of the United States, France, and Spain off its coasts, as well as the raids of John Paul Jones, but it also lived in fear of invasion.

Under international law, a country's ''exclusive economic zone,'' the waters where it maintains fishing and mineral rights, extends 200 nautical miles from its coasts.

Its coasts have low cliffs where millions of seabirds nest.

"Florida already bans offshore drilling off its coasts.

Colombia discourages the U.S. Navy from patrolling its coasts..

The Atlantic's existence, he surmises, entered men's minds when they started exploring its coasts.

But their combination is.Nature's bad handAfrica was weak before the Europeans touched its coasts.