Sentence examples for larger territory from inspiring English sources

Surrounded, in fact, by Mozambican territorial waters, these two islands, with a population of about 15,000 between them, are that rarest of geopolitical entities, lacustrine exclaves — land belonging to a larger territory from which it is cut off by the territorial lake water of another nation.

But he now travels to his fishing spots by snowmobile, allowing him to cast more nets over a larger territory.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front had wanted a larger territory and greater autonomy than what the Moro National Liberation Front had agreed to with the government in 1996.

"Iran" here serves as shorthand for a much larger territory, since the Sasanians also ruled over present-day Iraq, Afghanistan, eastern Turkey, and several other neighboring lands.

Two higher levels are the regional presbytery of pastors, elders, and deacons and the synod, which comprises several presbyteries representing a much larger territory.

The measure used, the index of dissimilarity, evaluates how evenly two groups are distributed in relevant areas that make up a larger territory.

Netflix launched its Australian services in March 2015, but with significantly fewer offerings than in larger territories.

Rulers fought for control of the trading centres and built up larger territories for themselves.

When it is scarce, females have larger territories that overlap with two or more males.

In other matters the votes were weighted so that the princes of the larger territories had one ballot each, and the smaller territories were grouped together.

Most eccentric sites are situated in the larger territories in northern Flanders.