twelve mile limit

Past the twelve mile limit, you're beyond the law.

But past the twelve mile limit, nobody cares if I let a minor drink.

"What's the deal with the twelve mile limit?"

Outside the twelve mile limit only vessels of South Vietnamese origin could be stopped, boarded and searched.

"Twelve mile limit," Mike replied, grinning.

SAC crews often flew perilously close to a border over land or just outside the twelve mile limit defining international waters.

While patrolling within the twelve mile limit in August 1975, Point Baker boarded and seized the Cuban fishing vessel E-82 for illegal fishing.

That was when Beijing implemented a U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty, expanding China's territorial waters from a twelve mile limit to two hundred miles."

Twelve Mile Limit (2002, G.P. Putnam's Sons, ISBN 0-399-14873-6)

Keeping the battle group around the Spratly Islands and testing the twelve mile limit with Vietnam seemed like a good compromise between doing FON and not limiting our options in the South China Sea."

Even when it formally ended its advocacy of the three-mile limit in 1971, it urged the United Nations Committee on Peaceful use of the Seabed to agree upon a twelve mile limit except when it changed the character of international straits.

They can't look for it inside Soviet waters and even if they could they wouldn't want to: the Americans are saying that the sub was outside the twelve mile limit and the Soviets are saying they didn't know it was in the Barents Sea anyway.