Territory in example sentence

But he was a senior civil servant, and seemed to be the only technocrat who could credibly hold together Hong Kong’s disaffected civil service, which China knew was indispensable to governing the territory, regardless of its British heritage.

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1874: General George Custer announced the discovery of gold in Lakota territory, specifically the Black Hills.

But also, our hearts are in our throats a huge amount of the time, because we're driving through water, and it's an unknown territory.

Borders between the Bosniak territory and the Bosnian-Serb territory have calmed down.

Here was an army that had just had experience in the First World War, where millions of men fought each other in the trenches, getting nowhere, making no progress, and here someone had come up with a device that allowed them to fly up in the skies high above enemy territory and destroy whatever they wanted with pinpoint accuracy.

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