During the Middle Ages the dukes and counts of France had been great territorial lords--levying their own armies, coining their own money, holding power of life and death over their vassals.
But, with the growth of royal power, the dukes and counts steadily lost their territorial independence and fell at last to the condition of courtiers.
Southward was Franceward, and there were those who joyously believed that this First Line Territorial Division was destined to lead the Territorial Army in France.
Laurencine had come to Elm Park Road that afternoon with the first news that Everard, through a major known to his late mother, had been offered a commission in a Territorial line regiment.
I'll get the Colonel to send them to the Territorial Association to-morrow, and probably in about a month you'll be in the Gazette.
If you'd only been a pre-war Territorial you might have done three weeks' urgent work for your country by this time.
The political results to China have assumed in these later years the very concrete form of territorial spoliation, and the Chinese have had abundant experience of the religion which makes nations strong and the people virtuous.
Every military corps raised is essentially territorial; and if ever it is moved from one province to another, it looks to a territorial chief, and no stranger can command it.
The essential condition of safety for the country was evidently, therefore, to bar the acquisition of territorial rights by any foreign Government or company.
Right of residence in the interior is hardly compatible with an extra-territorial clause.
Each of these territorialmagnates or great Daimios is practically independent of the Tycoon when within his own territory, with power of life and death over all his subjects and dependants; .
The basis of it was an ostensible friendship for China, out of which grew a protective alliance, and the peculiar kind of partnership which had constituted the intermediate stage in the previous great territorial acquisitions of Russia.
This arrangement is a compromise of the conflicting territorial claims and takes from Liberia no country over which it has maintained effective jurisdiction.
I can not doubt that a careful survey of Territoriallegislation would be of the highest utility.
I will add that in the event of a request from the Territorial government for protection by the United States against "domestic violence" this Government would be powerless to render assistance.
The United States have no motive or desire for territorial acquisition or political control beyond the present borders, and none such is contemplated by this treaty.
Resolutions of the Territorial Pioneers, admitting General Grant to membership.
It directed that a fugitive slave should not be received on board a British vessel unless his life was in danger, and that, if she were in territorial waters, he should be surrendered on legal proof of his condition.
On March 7 he announced that he would not have the proviso attached to the territorial bills, and should oppose any effort in that direction.
On this occasion Mr. Webster spoke with great force and in a tone of solemn warning against the whole policy of territorial aggrandizement.
The South, with customary shrewdness, was endeavoring to use the territorial organization of Oregon as a lever to help them in their struggle to gain control of the new conquests.
It is true that these virtuous homilies, so often preached by him against territorialaggrandizement in one direction, did not prevent him from indulging in very extensive visions of it in another.
Religious faith became distorted into a weapon for selfish and greedy territorialaggrandizement in the hands of Protestant princes.
In circumstances like these, accompanied by an actual invasion of our territorial rights, it would be difficult at any time for me to remain an idle spectator under the plea of age and retirement.
A territorial government for that region had been ordained in 1787, and the domain was called the northwest territory.
They also intimated that they would leave the Union if their grievances were not speedily redressed, and the "great territorial right" of the free navigation of the Mississippi secured to them.
The lands spoken of were the recognized territorialpossession of the chief ruler of the nation or tribe.
The interests of one were the interests of both, and, being the same in constituency and territorial boundaries, there seemed no occasion for friction or fear.
Prominent in the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816 were a number of Frenchmen of bearing and ability, then residing in the old territorial capital--Vincennes.
The chief impetus leading to these numerous foundations was the accentuation of the principle of territorial sovereignty, from the ecclesiastical as well as the political point of view.
In the Fascist doctrine, empire is not only a territorial or a military, or a commercial expression: it is a moral and a spiritual one.
Treaties of mutual guarantee were signed by Germany at Locarno in 1925, with Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Italy, assuring the maintenance of the territorial status quo.
Schacht utilized the military might growing under his direction to back Germany’s territorial demands which grew in proportion to the increase in armaments.
He also tried to meet the hostile reaction which he no doubt expected to follow this violation of the Treaty by saying: “We have no territorial claims to make in Europe.
He points out that the order by its express terms excluded men captured in naval warfare, that the Navy had no territorial commands on land, and that submarine commanders would never encounter commandos.
The bishops still retain their title of Prince, but they lost their power as territorial rulers at the time of the secularization which took place throughout Tyrol, and also in the principality of Salzburg.
He laid the beginnings of a royal territorial army.
The entire control of Congress over the whole subject of territorial government had never been questioned in earlier times.
Logically carried out, the new theory of "popular sovereignty" would apply to the first adventurous pioneers settling in the wilderness before the organization of any Territorial government by Congress, as well as afterward.
The advocates of this novel doctrine, however, if rightly understood, generally disavowed any claim to its application prior to the organization of a territorial government.
The answer which he seems to infer would be given "by the whole family of man" is that such a government as he supposes "can maintain its territorialintegrity against its own domestic foes.
His reply showed little interest or desire to go, although he seemed confident of success; but he observed that, on the basis of the military situation, they had no right to demand any territorial cession.
The first interviews resulted in revealing that part of the British instructions related to the Indian territory with intimations of coming demands for territorial cessions.
Still more, sir," ventured the adjutant, as four more patrols came forward with the battered remnants of the Territorial Force.
Colonel Corkleg was opposed by a colonel of a Territorial Corps who had studied well the temperament of the Militiamen against him.
Well," said the Territorial colonel, as his chief scout arrived.
Rumania was henceforward to be represented by a delegate, should exercise its powers in complete independence of the territorial authority.
The territorial Chapter of Rouen finally granted territorial letters to Cauchon--though only after a struggle and under compulsion.
The cession carries with it full territorial jurisdiction during the continuance of the lease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "territorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
