Sentence examples for territorial interest from inspiring English sources

They would need to imitate the early Labour party's concentration of voting power in areas of territorial interest, rather than dispersing it as now.

Although he initially disliked the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus, Raymond became the most faithful partisan of the emperor's territorial interest in the Crusade, sometimes to his own disadvantage.

It's as if Israel never left in 2005, uprooting every last soldier and settler, while making clear that Jerusalem had no territorial interest in Gaza and giving local residents their first chance in history to govern themselves.

Other countries participating as members of Antarctic Treaty have a territorial interest in Antarctica, but the provisions of the Treaty do not allow them to make their claims while it is in force.

Throughout the eighteenth century, Madras was a site of continuous warfare sparked mostly by trading and territorial interest.

"Macedonians are increasingly afraid that Albanians are exercising their territorial interests".

By the authors' count, therefore, "China's territorial interests overlap with those of 24 other governments".

Partly from administrative necessity and partly because of the pressures of territorial interests, nearly all modern states provide for some distribution of governmental authority on a territorial basis.

"It has to be said clearly [by Moscow] that Russia is not pursuing any territorial interests beyond Crimea," said the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Ruling independently, the brothers pursued a coordinated policy, their territorial interests involving them in all the Italian wars of the time, mainly against Florence and the popes.

In March, China raised the level of its territorial claim, asserting that the South China Sea was a "core concern," a phrase that placed it on a par with Taiwan and Tibet, its most politically contentious territorial interests.