Sentence examples for outlying territory from inspiring English sources

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Its core area was directly administered by Hayam Wuruk, and the vast outlying territory acknowledged his supremacy, but he exerted little direct control over it.

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Though Solomon gradually lost control over outlying territories conquered by David, he was extraordinarily successful in organizing the economic life of the country.

Merchants in Chicago who bought wheat from outlying territories were not sure of the arrival time and quality of a delivery.

The outlying territories of Agalega, Cargados Carajos Shoals, and Rodrigues Island each have dependency status.

In 1965 Britain transferred one of Mauritius's outlying territories, the Chagos Archipelago (including the Diego Garcia atoll), to a newly created administrative unit, the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The Japanese hardware would monitor outlying territories and repel any attempt to invade the Senkaku islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China.

To wit, common law over 500 years ago, "subjecthood" rather than citizenship, and the legal status of the British empire's outlying territories.

Persuaded that he had found outlying territories of East Asia, Columbus returned in triumph to Spain, where the sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella named him "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" and granted him sweeping powers over the territories he had claimed.

Its outlying territories are Rodrigues Island, situated about 340 miles (550 km) eastward, the Cargados Carajos Shoals, 250 miles (400 km) northeastward, and the Agalega Islands, 580 miles (930 km) northward from the main island.

They live in what we might call Outer Serbia, and the ferocious Serb nationalism that Milosevic and his allies did so much to arouse still burns hot and volatile in most of these outlying territories.

Much of the hardware included in Japan's new budget is designed to monitor outlying territories and repel any attempt to invade the Senkaku islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China.

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