"extend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The proclamation extends American sovereignty not only over the surface of the ocean, but also over "the airspace over the territorial sea, as well as its bed and subsoil."
- The U.S. would benefit from the convention's extending coastal sovereignty from 3 to 12 miles, with full control of fishing and mining rights within a 200-mile zone.
- When the Kansas-Nebraska Act threatened to extend popular sovereignty into the newly created Kansas Territory, Eli Thayer, a second-term Congressman from Massachusetts, hatched the idea of an Emigrant Aid Company in the winter of 1853-4.
- Sovereignty for Hawaiians A bill that for the first time would extend sovereignty to the native Hawaiian people is poised for a vote in the United States Senate despite opposition from many Republicans, who denounce the measure as unworkable.
- A bill pending in Congress to extend sovereignty to Native Hawaiian people could alter the outcome of the case if it becomes law, Ms. Sullivan, the lawyer for the schools, said.
- Africa's reconfiguration, these experts say, is already well under way but involves a more subtle process in which regional economic and military powers emerge and express their hegemony without seeking to extend outright sovereignty beyond their borders.
- The JAWS facility extended Canadian sovereignty over a large uninhabited area which Canada claimed as its sovereign territory.
- In 2011, however, he abstained from a vote brought by National Union MKs that would extend sovereignty to Jewish towns in the West Bank.
- In 1980, nearly all nations removed their embassies from Jerusalem in response to the passage by the Knesset of the Jerusalem Law extending Israeli sovereignty over the entire city.
- SPORTSSUNDAY Sovereignty for Hawaiians Congress appears poised to extend to native Hawaiians sovereignty similar to that held by American Indians.
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