"area" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This page deals with events in the United States, its insular areas, and other American interests.
- Unlike states, sovereignty over insular areas rests not with the local people, but in Congress.
- Since 'territory' now has legal definition under federal law, the term 'insular area' is used as a generic reference.
- It ended with American control over the islands which were then administered as an insular area.
- In the contemporary sense, the term "unincorporated territory" refers primarily to insular areas.
- The bishop from an American insular area has been granted observer status.
- With insular areas, land could be held by the federal government without the prospect of its ever becoming a state in the Union.
- However, a major issue early in the 20th century was whether the whole Constitution applied to the territories called insular areas by Congress.
- (1) All matters regarding insular areas of the United States.
- However, unofficial flags are in use on five of these eleven insular areas:
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