Sentence examples for maritime waters from inspiring English sources

For example, in 2015 Venezuela suddenly claimed to annexe nearly all the maritime waters off Guyana, also threatening the exclusive economic zones of eight other states including Colombia.

There is a deadline: a UN convention gives its signatories, including India and Pakistan, until 2009 to fix their maritime waters, or lose rights over them.Resolving Siachen, a battlefield of crag and ice, where India holds the heights, looks deceptively simpler.

Given our need to map mountainous terrain in Afghanistan and monitor large swaths of our border with Mexico, as well as our overwhelmingly immense maritime waters, the United States' need for commercial satellite imagery for support is likely to continue to rise.

Philippine maritime waters encompass as much as producing unique and diverse marine life, an important part of the Coral Triangle.

The Hunt-Lenox Globe, built in 1502, carried this phrase, "Here there be dragons," in an area of uncharted maritime waters.

Dominique Sorain, the prefect, or state representative, for the French overseas department, told a news conference Friday that the sea search would stretch as far as the maritime waters of neighboring Mauritius.

There has been no change on the "buffer zone" around Gaza's perimeters, which swallows 35% of Gaza's arable land and 85% of maritime fishing waters "with devastating impact on the economy and people's rights and livelihoods... Boundaries of the restricted areas are highly arbitrary and enforced by live fire," says the report.

Maritime or water borders are a geographical commonality for Australia and Southern Europe contributing to similar challenges in the fluidity of power-shifting mechanisms, due to both increased visibility and invisibility.

Relations with South Korea and with the United States and Japan plummeted after a maritime firefight in waters disputed by the two Koreas on June 29.

The naval exercise, scheduled to last three days, was expected to take place about 60 miles south of the maritime border in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.

Even before the proliferation exercise ended this week, the American military's Central Command announced the scheduling of another exercise to practice mine countermeasures and maritime security in waters of the Middle East.