Sentence examples for private territory from inspiring English sources

Thus we can maintain our "private territory" without being dishonest.

Once again individuals appeared intent on staking out their private territory.

We shook hands and sat under the monkey bars, which had become my private territory.

Certainly, Murnane is interested in what part of consciousness of sensation, of emotion might be shareable and what part is irreducibly individual, a private territory.

His conclusion – which foreshadows today's demolitions – was that tower blocks produced crime (Manhattan skyscrapers notwithstanding) and should be knocked down and replaced with low rise housing, where private territory and boundaries could be marked out, thereby deterring criminals from entering.

In Robin Marantz Henig's fascinating article about lying (Feb. 5), she describes our "private territory" and writes, "Without lies, there can be no such sanctuary, no interior life that is completely and inviolably ours".

But the events of the last few days have shown how law enforcement investigators who plunge into the private territories of cyberspace looking for one thing can find something else altogether, with astonishingly destructive results.

"The events of the last few days have shown how law enforcement investigators who plunge into the private territories of cyberspace looking for one thing can find something else altogether, with astonishingly destructive results," Mr. Shane wrote.

Middle school children, it seems, do not want adults to help them get organized, because they view their knapsacks as their own private territories that they want to protect.

This affords: reversal of images/text in place (so that people on both sides see objects correctly); personal and private territories aligned atop each other; and GUI objects that provide different visuals for feedthrough vs. feedback.

From an exploratory user study using a fictional textual intelligence analysis task on a large, high-resolution vertical display, we investigated how pairs of users interact with the display to construct spatial schemas and externalize information, as well as how they establish shared and private territories.