Sentence examples for maritime states from inspiring English sources

Among the world's maritime states, the United States has been relatively aggressive, creating about 1,600 marine protected areas.

The Ming court then sought to display its naval power to bring the maritime states of South and Southeast Asia in line.

For several centuries beginning in the European Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas.

To add credibility to these moves, the United States should ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), which has governed other sovereign maritime states for the last 16 years.

They submitted to Caesar in 57 bc; but the next winter, disturbed by his interest in Britain, they seized some Roman commissariat officers and, with the support of several maritime states, attempted to regain independence.

In 478 he helped the Athenian statesman and general Aristides to secure the transference from Sparta to Athens of the leadership of the Greek maritime states, which had been recently liberated from Persia, and he became the principal commander of the Delian League thus formed.

The maritime state that neglects its navy is one that finds itself unable to preserve its sovereignty.

The narrator said nothing about risks, announcing instead: "The sea is crucial to the development of China and its future as a maritime state".

Arguing that the control of sea routes was decisive because of the superior mobility of the oceanic sailing vessel over animal-powered land transport, Mahan claimed that there was a tendency for maritime trade and colonial possessions to be controlled by one well-positioned maritime state.With the advent of the railroad, Mackinder posited that land power would trump sea power.

Such Innovation is important for the maritime state that un-renewable energy was in critical deposit.

Srivijaya was a Buddhist maritime state which existed in Sumatra from at least 671 CE to the thirteenth century.