Greenland, a territory of Denmark with a predominantly Inuit population, assumed self-rule in 2009, giving it control of its resources.
She was given a shiny black 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac (lease payments and fuel are gratis) and a territory of 14 Wal-Marts in central Illinois and Indiana.
The region is situated in the north of Quebec, between the 55th and 62nd N parallels and spans a territory of 660, 000 sq km (255, 000 sq miles) - larger than France.
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With a population of just 650, 000 and a territory the size of Northern Ireland, the mountainous mini-state would be a midget on its own.
The American independence movement had inspired Mexican leaders of that era and since Mexico, in fact, also was a territory composed of states, the name stuck and became official in 1824.
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While these may have a certain appeal in and of themselves, the real attraction of these activities is as a means for exploring the inner and uninhabited reaches of Svalbard, a territory with less than 50km of roads.
The Rome Statute outlines the preconditions for the ICC's assertion of jurisdiction, stating that the Court theoretically may assert jurisdiction when the accused is a national of a State party, or the alleged crimes were committed on the territory of a State party.
The most likely scenario for a referral to the ICC -- crimes are committed on the territory of a State party -- does not require that the accused be a national of a State party.
It is a national policy to raise forest cover to a third of Indian territory from a fifth now.
Election experts say it is unlikely the ballots will be able to reach the remote interior of a country where some 60, 000 polling stations are spread out over a territory the size of Western Europe.
Colombia's defence minister resigned , in disagreement with a government decision to allow left-wing guerrillas to remain in control of a large chunk of jungle territory.
This detective story is a thrilling and eerily suggestive tour of a territory whose boundaries are maddeningly elusive, murderously fluid.
It was convinced that its long-held theory that under the salt weld in the Gulf of Mexico was prime territory for a lot of trapped hydrocarbons.
Or, God forbid, a criminal who has come to case the territory for a gang of burglars?
The transitional government holds the capital, Mogadishu, while the Shabab still runs a swathe of territory around it.
One candidate being mentioned is Abdul Rashid Dostam, who controlled a slice of territory until it was taken by the Taliban.
It is very difficult to understand what point you were trying to make, your blog meandered over quite a bit of territory.
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The Colombians embarked on a peace process with FARC in the late nineties, ceding a piece of territory the size of Switzerland.
Munster played most of the attacking rugby and they enjoyed a large chunk of territory while failing to trouble the try-line.
Importantly, these intercepts took place during the boost-phase - a capability that means the missile and its deadly payload could be destroyed over the territory of a would-be attacker.
The current negotiation of land-claim agreements with the 14 Indian bands who make up a fifth of the territory's 34, 000 population has brought in extra millions of federal cash.
The case for granting investor-owned utilities a monopoly franchise on the provision of electric service in a specific geographic territory has eroded considerably over the past half century and is now entering a phase of systemic collapse.
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In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.
As a result, a surprisingly high number of people were born in the US or a US territory and therefore are dual citizens of their home country and the US. While there are many benefits of US citizenship, once an individual is subject to the US tax regime, the individual is taxed on his worldwide income.
That conflict was marked by ever-shifting alliances, fragmentation of territory into fiefs and a collapse of the central state, which by the war's end in 1990 was headed by two rival claimants.
But a trio of 7 ratings days in early March, part of a multi-day pullback into technically oversold territory, did lead to gains of more than 4% less than a week later.
In 1790s Georgia the decision by politicians to preserve for the public a 1-million-hectare swath of former Indian territory known as the Yazoo Land Grant spawned a rash of duels between real estate developers, loan sharks and legislators.
Because China had a relatively stable government in control of a huge fertile territory, and a literate bureaucracy to transmit innovations from place to place.
The Pentagon announced that it will hasten the deployment of a missile defense system to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen regional protection against a possible attack.
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