Sentence examples for stretch of territory from inspiring English sources

When Guevara and his men tried to enter a stretch of territory, they were confronted by a particularly combative leader of the Second Front, Jesús Carreras.

With EPIC, which he founded in 1994, Rotenberg has come to occupy an emerging stretch of territory: the place where civil liberties and cyberspace come crashing together.

The "bloodlands" are the stretch of territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea where Europe's most murderous regimes did their most murderous work.

By Saturday morning, it was clear that Mr. M. needed far more attention than any other patient in that stretch of territory.

Costa Rica had maintained in a hearing earlier this year that Nicaragua had "invaded" the tiny stretch of territory on its north-east coast.

Since 1975, aboriginal groups in the north the Inuit in Nunavut and Indian bands in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon have negotiated 21 land claims, giving them more control over development in a vast stretch of territory.

It has taken huge stretches of territory using naked terror, destroyed borders and set up a self-proclaimed caliphate.

Ankara is defines the Kurds as terrorists and is attempting to stop their two stretches of territory along the Turkish border joining up in the city of Azaz.

The insurgency seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad holds large stretches of territory in the north and has been gaining ground for weeks in the south.

For more than 400 years, the Sultanate of Sulu, which preceded both the Philippine republic and Malaysia by centuries, ruled over vast stretches of territory — including parts of Borneo — from opulent palaces in what is now the southern Philippines.

The colonel's weapons have allowed the rebels, nomadic Tuareg tribesmen, to score surprising victories off the Malian Army in the desert north, where they control large stretches of territory.