Although the order no longer exercises territorial rule, it issues passports, and its sovereign status is recognized by the Holy See and some other Roman Catholic states.
Thus, notwithstanding the catastrophic military blows the group has suffered and the loss of its territorial rule, the Islamic State has made it unmistakably clear that it will carry on the fight even if the caliphate is militarily incapacitated.
For a time, Venetian territorial rule went no further than the Mincio and Livenza rivers, but beyond the Livenza lay the politically and economically important principality of the patriarch of Aquileia, through which passed the main routes to Germany and to Istria.
Holders of the rank immediately below, that of ordinary marquess, received a pension, but had no territorial rule.
Bradley's graduation year, 1965, was the last year that the NBA's territorial rule was in effect, which gave professional teams first rights to draft players who attended college within 50 miles of the team.
The sustainability measures with the territorial mitigation rules that can result by sheet (that in space-based and related to GIS) such as protection against noise pollution, electromagnetic pollution and the protection of natural habitats etc., are shown in a scheme with the aims to define the basis of sustainable district design.
Finally, lost in the shuffle of an exceedingly busy sports law year in 2014 were important victories for plaintiffs in antitrust class actions challenging territorial blackout rules implemented by Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League for purchasers of the league's online game broadcasts.
Some of the territorial "concessions" ruled by Western nations, endured for a century.
Karl Renner and Otto Bauer explored such arrangements for geographically dispersed cultural minorities, allowing them some cultural and "personal" autonomy without territorial self rule (Bauer 1903; Renner 1907; Bottomore and Goode 1978; cf. Tamir 1993 and Nimni 2005).
However, there was a territorial pick rule that allowed an NBA team to draft a player from its local area.
