Sentence examples for territorial wars from inspiring English sources

The resulting territorial wars were bloody in the extreme.

The extraordinary sight of coral polyps battling each other in territorial wars.

Most of those he named were heroes of colonial conquest or territorial wars.

These encounters, along with shifting food supplies and intertribal territorial wars, generated extensive migration and attrition among some groups.

The captaincy of Santa Catarina was created in 1738 to serve as an outpost in the Portuguese-Spanish territorial wars.

These European powers fought territorial wars in Northern America from the 16th through the 18th century and frequently drew indigenous peoples into the conflicts.

There is a war being fought there, a territorial war.

Complicating matters is a territorial war between rival police commanders, Werner (Gérard Lanvin) and Fabre (Mireille Perrier), one of whom is evil.

Still, many contributed money and support to the fledgling state, especially during a territorial war with Azerbaijan that ended in 1994 and still simmers.

(Catsoulis) 'War of the Buttons' (PG-13, 1 40, in French) Christophe Barratier has set his version of this story — about boys in a territorial war that grows increasingly fraught — in occupied France in 1944.

Calderón claims that a significant number of leading capos have been killed or arrested; he also argues that most of the tens of thousands of dead have been victims of a separate territorial war being waged by competing cartels.