"take" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Aggressive actions still negatively impact country's' reputation, but less than taking territory by force.
- The contras have shown no ability at any time to win popular support or to take and hold territory in Nicaragua.
- In other words, the corners are the easiest places to take territory, because two sides of the board can be used as boundaries.
- "From what we could see, it looked as if there was an attempt to take territory and move the civilian population out," one monitor said.
- The Bulgarians agreed not to take territory and were awarded large amount of money.
- Is it necessary to take territory by force when countries can expand through trade and investment?
- But those priorities had more than once involved taking occasional territory; always for the good of the people, of course.
- The British soon started behaving like imperialists, determined to take territory.
- "We don't try to take territory away from any other country," Mile said.
- "It's a paradoxical situation, where we're urging them to take territory."
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