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territorial

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1. territorial - Noun

2. territorial - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial.

Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as, Territorial governments.

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We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ... Ariel Sharon

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. Christian Lous Lange

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. Christian Lous Lange

...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. Carroll Quigley

The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes. John Ashcroft

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on. Hermann Göring

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