Sentences with phrase «over the territory called»

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The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

Both countries have already declared victory in the fight against the group, after almost all of the territory taken over by the their so - called caliphate had been recaptured.

Excavations carried out over six years in the treeless, grassless, soil-less Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, 750 miles from the North Pole, have yielded a remarkable treasure: a 375 - million - year - old, scaly, fin - legged, flat - headed, swivel - necked creature called Tiktaalik roseae.

Yet the parasitic arthropods have recently undergone what scientists are calling a «rapid global expansion,» taking over new territories and growing in number and range.

In 1551, 12 years after Olaus Magnus designed his famous Carta Marina, Antonio de Espinosa — unknown to the World but adored in Mexico — cut the first original printing typefaces of the Americas, severing the strict lash of Seville over anything book in the territories that now we call Latin America.

There are thousands of elephant seals on the beach - flipping up sand over their huge torpedo - shaped bodies, moving like globs of JELLO over the sand, and carving out territories to call their own.

Now if they called it «Super Mario Bros.,» used large swaths of Nintendo's music, or something more along those lines, then they could cross over from fair use territory into more murky waters.

With Kingpin out of play, a new organization called the Inner Demons has begun to make moves in order to take over the Kingpin's territory.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

In the Right of Passage over Indian Territory Case (1960), Judge ad hoc Fernandes called it «the most general and the most essential of the general principles of law», while in the celebrated WTO case US - Shrimp, the Appellate Body described it as «at once a general principle of law and a general principle of international law».

We found its fingerprint sensor to be slightly erratic, sound on the loudspeaker was a trifle on the lower side (call quality and sound over headphones are good, though), the absence of backlit touch navigation buttons next to the fingerprint scanner is odd, and the phone's penchant of heating up when in HD gaming or heavy photographic territory can be disconcerting.

Accountable for calling on over 300 dentist and veterinarian clinics within my designated territory in the Denver metro area.

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This is a procedure under which the Australian or Northern Territory Governments can obtain a set of rights (which are called statutory rights) over certain Aboriginal land.