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Example sentences for "territories"

Lexicographically close words:
territoires; territorial; territoriality; territorially; territorie; territorio; territory; terror; terrorise; terrorised
  1. The parting grief of his mother hung on his spirits; and heavy and frequent were his sighs while he gazed on the rustic cottages and fertile fields, which reminded him that he was yet passing through the territories of his grandfather.

  2. After a long march through a dark and dismal night, the morning began to break; and Thaddeus found himself on the southern side of that little river which divides the territories of Sobieski from the woods of Kobylka.

  3. Vigorous protest had been made by women throughout the Territories against the bill for statehood which had been presented to Congress, classifying women in the suffrage section with illiterates, minors, felons, insane and feeble-minded.

  4. Mrs. Biggers attended the annual meeting of the Twin Territories Labor Union, which unanimously adopted a resolution for woman suffrage.

  5. Here the territories of the Dukes of Lorraine, and Bouillon Prince of Sedan, not only cut France off from the Rhine and the Moselle, but opened a door by which she could at any time be invaded from Germany.

  6. She emerged triumphant with her territories largely increased, while Austria was crushed and humiliated, and Spain was dethroned from her position as the dominating power of Europe.

  7. But if the war is to be prosecuted, and if territories are to be conquered and annexed, we shall stand fast and forever to the principle that, so far as we are concerned, these territories shall be the exclusive abode of freemen.

  8. See education spreading the lights of religion, morality, and general information into every cottage in this wide extent of our Territories and States!

  9. The ensuing day beheld them entering the territories of their allies; and, in four days more, the chiefs of Tlascala ushered them, with songs of joy, into the republican city.

  10. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States," ran the words of the treaty of peace closing the war with Spain, "shall be determined by the Congress.

  11. Could Congress permanently govern these lands without giving their citizens the rights of citizens of the United States, and with no intention of ever making them territories or states?

  12. Logic and the Constitution went to the winds, while the executive and legislative departments administered the territories on the convenient and flexible theory that certain constitutional provisions must be heeded and that others need not.

  13. Willoughby, Territories and Dependencies of the United States (1905), by a former treasurer of Porto Rico; L.

  14. Meanwhile politicians were fanning the desire of the growing territories to become states, and in 1889 Montana and Washington were admitted, and in the following year Idaho and Wyoming.

  15. The new problem was Imperialism--was it wise policy and was it constitutional to annex and govern territories outside the limits of continental North America?

  16. In August, 1917, the Pope proposed peace on the basis of "reciprocal condonation" for past offenses, and the reciprocal return of territories and colonies.

  17. Under its provisions the federal government set aside the proceeds of the sale of public land in sixteen states and territories as a fund for irrigation work.

  18. Commonwealth, it was felony and death to acknowledge the Prince of Wales as king of England, or rightful heir of any of the territories thereunto belonging;--and Charles II.

  19. During the thirteenth century great territories were recovered from the Moors; but the advance ceased as the Moors were reduced to the compact kingdom of Granada.

  20. Then he led his forces into the territories of Cassivellaunus to the River Thames, which river can be forded in one place only.

  21. Disintegration was greatly increased by the practice of the partition of territories among brothers in place of primogeniture.

  22. That crafty monarch drew into his own hands the greater part of the immense territories held by the kings of England as French feudatories.

  23. He immediately, on his accession, began to employ in aggressive wars the well-equipped army left by his father, and in three campaigns he regained all the territories that Shalmaneser I.

  24. The whole country consisted of a collection of petty states, a complex group of peoples and territories which the Egyptians themselves never completely succeeded in disentangling.

  25. He began his reign by quelling an insurrection of the Cimmerians in the territories on the border of the Black Sea.

  26. Accordingly, before the winter was ended, he marched with four legions unexpectedly into the territories of the Nervii, captured many men and much cattle, wasted their lands, and forced them to surrender and give hostages.

  27. There were no barons with territories comparable to those of the great French feudataries.

  28. No other public man has ever had so much to do with the organizing of Territories and the admitting of States into the Union; probably no other man ever so completely mastered all the details of such legislation.

  29. Similar collections were to be seen everywhere as we marched through this district and the territories of Tlascala.

  30. Cortes accordingly sent the pilot Umbria and two soldiers to examine the mines of Zacatula; and sent his relation Pizarro, to the territories of Chinantla and Zapoteca.

  31. It is such a place as, remembering the old Greek and Roman myths and superstitions, one would recognize as fitting to mark the confines of the territories of great masses of strong, aggressive, and frequently conflicting peoples.

  32. Territories have been offering at several dollars' reduction," he said.

  33. These and your shares in the Territories Investment--which cannot be sold--I believe represent your assets.

  34. The voices grew louder, the group swelled, and I started at the call: "Any more of you with Territories to sell?

  35. It was with a view of obtaining it you suggested the issue of new Territories stock, and, seeing that hang fire, unobtrusively endeavored to sell your shares.

  36. I've been offering Territories until I'm hoarse," he said.

  37. The German princes had greatly increased their territories and their wealth during the Protestant Revolution.

  38. How might this or that royal family obtain wider territories and richer towns?

  39. Despite wide territories and a succession of able rulers, Poland was a weak monarchy.

  40. At the time when kings were absolute rulers and reckoned their territories as personal possessions, much depended upon the royal succession.

  41. It now occurred to Louis that doubtless in the old feudal days of the middle ages or early modern times some, if not all, of his new acquisitions had possessed feudal suzerainty over other towns or territories not yet incorporated into France.

  42. By diplomacy more than by military prowess, he obtained the new territories by the peace of Westphalia.

  43. By military might they maintained their control over the ever-widening territories of the Russian people; with racial pride and religious fervor, the distant emigrants regarded their royal family at Moscow.

  44. He was temporal ruler of the city of Rome and the surrounding papal states, and over those territories he exercised a power similar to that of any duke or king.

  45. He smiled at the disorganized troops, the disordered finances, the conflicting interests in the hodge-podge of territories which his rival had inherited from her father.

  46. He wished to get rid of all provincial assemblies and other vestiges of local independence, and to have all his territories governed uniformly by officials subject to himself.

  47. French troops were in full possession of the Austrian Netherlands and all other territories up to the Rhine.

  48. This bishop of Rome was, of course, the pope; and the pope slowly extended his territories through central Italy from the Tiber to the Adriatic, long using them merely as a bulwark to his religious and ecclesiastical prerogatives.

  49. The attempt of the government was to give the Indians certain territories on which they could live in different parts of that country.

  50. The territories of the Andhra dynasty extended across southern India from sea to sea in the early part of the Christian era.

  51. Neither the Binjhwars nor the Baigas are found except in the territories above mentioned, and it seems clear that the Binjhwars are a comparatively civilised section of the Baigas, who have become a distinct caste.

  52. The purport of these resolutions was to deny to Congress the power to prohibit slavery in the territories and to declare all previous enactments to this effect unconstitutional.

  53. Browne, Report on "Mineral Resources of the States and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains" (United States Treasury, 2 vols.

  54. He reminded them of the happiness they had long enjoyed by living under his protection; and added, that he had many presents to make them, and expected they would surrender a share of their territories in return for them.

  55. Indeed while such vast territories in Carolina remained unoccupied, it was neither for the interest of the province, nor that of the mother-country, to employ any hands in manufactures.

  56. Lastly, I inform you that it is the King's order to all his governors and subjects, to treat Indians with justice and humanity, and to forbear all encroachments on the territories allotted for them.

  57. General Oglethorpe did not treat with her for the lands of Georgia, she having none of her own, but with the old and wise leaders of the Creek nation, who voluntarily surrendered their territories to the King.

  58. By this time the King of England had resolved to vindicate the honour of his crown, and maintain his right to those territories in Georgia, together with the freedom of commerce and navigation in the Mexican seas.

  59. To these territories the French claimed a right; and, to keep possession, as well as to engross the Indian trade, built a fort on the banks of the Ohio river, which they called Fort Duquesne.

  60. Now that their territories are circumscribed by narrower bounds, the means of subsistence derived even from game is less plentiful.

  61. He was a member of the Committee on Territories in the House of Representatives, and its Chairman[313] relates that this dying Representative was earnest to the last that his vote should be felt for Freedom.

  62. In the very year of his admission to the bar the question of Slavery assumed unprecedented proportions, from the efforts made to push it into the Territories of the United States.

  63. The condition of the Indian tribes in the North-West, in British Columbia, and in the territories of the United States, abundantly illustrates the effect of a multiplicity of languages among nomad savages.

  64. For the settlement of provinces, and the surveying of the prairie for disposal to its new occupants, had necessitated the determination of a well-defined boundary between the Canadian territories and those of the United States.

  65. The indomitable Vikings were conquering fresh territories on the coasts and islands of the North Sea, and giving a new name to the fairest region of northern Gaul wrested by the Northmen from its Frank conquerors.

  66. At the end of the catalogue of the Ripperda territories and titles, before he opened on the clause, Santa Cruz paused.

  67. He recollected, that amongst these persecuted people, was Don Ferdinand de Valor, one of his own progenitors; and that his attachment to the Moorish cause had occasioned the first sequestration of the Ripperda territories to the Spanish Kings.

  68. The appeal was to the same Christian sentiment which had just uttered its vain protest, through the almost unanimous voice of the ministers of the gospel, against the opening of the Territories to the possibility of slavery.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "territories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.