Sentence examples for special territory from inspiring English sources
Now the Portuguese are holding it in trust for China indefinitely as "a special territory".
After the war, Trieste was a special territory administered jointly by British and American forces.
At the tip of Sumatra is the Special Territory of Aceh, whose title bears testimony to Indonesia's inability to make it into an ordinary province.
But a week or two at the island's northern end, the province of North Sumatra and the Special Territory of Aceh, can encompass a good mix of geographical and cultural attractions, most of them unique to Sumatra.
A U.S.-trained archaeologist who has made a significant contribution to unearthing the island's history, he eventually served as provincial governor of Easter Island, which is a special territory of Chile, in the 1980s.
Mentions the plan made earlier by deGaull for settling the Algerian problem -the partition of Algeri with the foreign elements lumped as Europeans & given the northern coastal region; the Arabs some special territory, where they could be cared for & be supplied with housing & employment.
Encyclopedia of Law and Religion Online (Gerhard Robbers and W. Cole Durham eds., Leiden: Brill, [2015- ]) - The Encyclopedia covers Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, international organizations and special territories (e.g. Gibraltar, Greenland).
Plebiscitary Theories, as we have already seen, need such a theory to explain why the fact that a group is a majority in a particular territory gives it a claim to sovereignty over that territory and why the fact that those residing in the same territory who do not support secession have no special claim to that territory, not even one that falls short of the claim the majority has.
This allegorical song was one of several ballads in a nearly two-hour show in which Ms. Collins's unblemished icicle voice evoked the kind of ethereal, far-sighted reflection that is her special artistic territory.
Economic decline and stagnation are even more visible than when I left, the consequence of Hong Kong's loss of status as a special tariff territory in the West during the trade wars.
We've got an exclusive sneak peek at the next episode of "Nashville" (Wed., Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC), an episode that looks pretty close to entering "very special episode" territory.
