The Anglo-Saxon word for foreign was Waelisc and foreign territory was Waelas.
Bush's only foray into foreign territory during the presidential campaign was a brief stop at a Mexican border town, where he stood alongside outgoing Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and pledged to broaden trade with Latin America.
But there are grave doubts that the Malian army will be able to hold newly recovered territory without foreign support.
China counts the tiny Caribbean bolthole of the British Virgin Islands as its biggest source of foreign investment (not including the Chinese territory of Hong Kong).
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In April the government put forward a bill to cap total foreign landholdings at 20% of the country's territory, and to stop any individual from acquiring over 1, 000 hectares (2, 471 acres).
"At the time of their detention, neither the Supreme Court nor this court had ever held that aliens captured on foreign soil and detained beyond sovereign U.S. territory had any constitutional rights, " the court said.
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We have awarded contracts for foreign oil companies (including some American ones) to explore our territory.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the southern part of the British Antarctic Territory had been designated "Queen Elizabeth Land" in honor of her 60-year reign.
Foreign Minister Brian Cowen insists that Ireland will provide its support, and territory, to military action authorised by a second UN resolution.
On 18 April it was revealed that a Libyan military commander, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, was taking legal action against former foreign secretary Jack Straw for allegedly agreeing to his rendition to Gaddafi's Libya via British territory in 2004.
Although they accept that military action should be taken against al-Qaida and foreign fighters, they say that that action has to be by the Pakistani army within the territory of Pakistan, and that the military approach toward the Taliban that has been used, off and on for the last two years in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, has proved an unmitigated disaster.
As governor of the appallingly run Primorsky Krai (Maritime Territory) of Russia's Far East, he is a living symbol of the problems facing foreign companies in Russia.
While the dollar realistically moved into inflationary territory by 2004 and grew weaker through last summer, its strength in the fall vs. undefined foreign currencies and commodities gave inflation hawks hope that mistaken policies from earlier in the decade were finally being reversed.
In the current global context, which has seen land prices soar, international land transactions could easily get out of hand and result in foreign interests taking control of most of the land in Latin America, threatening the national sovereignty of States over their territory.
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