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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a further two hour chase the Sea Rover was within our territorial waters where she was stopped and arrested by Seeker.
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From 1995, the dumping of all forms of industrial waste will be prohibited outside of territorial waters .
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Governors say they are afraid of a rebuff if they venture too near territorial waters .
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Heaven forbid that she should wander into any of his territorial waters .
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New Zealand legislation prohibiting nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from its territorial waters had been first enforced in February 1985.
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The research ship Solo was seized when it crossed into territorial waters .
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The United States wanted the treaty to apply only outside the 12-mile limit of territorial waters , but it was overruled.