Sentence examples for territorial confrontations from inspiring English sources

Yet they are also facing scrutiny, particularly in Washington, as Chinese corporate buying trips coincide with a growing assertiveness in Chinese foreign policy, including the deployment in recent months of surveillance vessels and even naval destroyers and frigates in a series of territorial confrontations with American allies like Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Unlike other lemurs, fork-marked lemurs do not scent-mark, and instead use vocalizations during territorial confrontations.

Leeds were the great intimidators and Clough's first meeting with the players - "a gang of apes after a fuck" - is a fine paranoid scene of territorial confrontation.

The treaty, signed in 1895 by a joint Anglo-Russian commission, outlined that it was most prudent the two competing empires do their best to steer clear of direct territorial confrontation at the height of the Great Game (keeping their interactions a mix of diplomacy and deadly espionage).

Confrontations over territorial control are alarmingly frequent and could get out of hand, with dangerous consequences.

Confrontations over territorial control and undersea resources could easily get out of hand.

If social interactions have an effect on repertoire composition during adulthood, (as previously suggested [17], [18]), great tits should almost permanently change their song types, since confrontations and territorial interactions take place almost daily during the reproductive period in this species.

Transnationalism engenders a distinct sense of non-territorial nationhood and generates confrontations among multiculturalist and interculturalist perspectives.

At the same time, 59percentt fear that confrontation over territorial claims in East Asian waters could lead to military conflict.

Regarding UNCLOS' jurisdiction, its article 298 says that the international community has no recourse under it to mandatory procedures of settlements for disputes concerning maritime demarcation, territorial sovereignty, historical rights, military confrontations, etc.

Warning that territorial disputes could spiral into confrontation, he said America had an iron clad commitment to the sovereignty of its allies.