Some articles on territories:
... The situation in the overseas territories is different than that in metropolitan France ... Generally, these territories are simultaneously departments and regions ...
1999 Northwest Territories general election Name Vote % Floyd Roland 350 83.33% Mary Beckett 50 11.90% Chris Garven 20 4.76% Total Valid Ballots 420 100 ... The Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories runs on a consensus government model, so no political parties exist although some groups have attempted to ...
... The complexity of dates for the Rhodesian territories above is exacerbated by the fact that the name wasn't used at first ... Collectively the territories were referred to as Zambezia or the BSAC territories or Charterland ... from 1895 onwards when referring to those two territories collectively ...
... for the Goths tradition of moving and "nesting" in new territories, but hreið- is also a name-prefix meaning "beautiful", "eager", "great", "famous", "noble" ... Gothiscandza and their later territories ... The territories of the Goths in southern Europe, according to Anglo-Saxon sources ...
... Delta Nellie Cournoyea, former Premier of the Northwest Territories Glenna Hansen, former Commissioner of the Northwest Territories Robert C ... Twin Lakes Abe Okpik, first Inuk on the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and spearheaded Project Surname to replace disc numbers Vince Steen, former MLA for Nunakput ...
Famous quotes containing the word territories:
“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Curiosity doesn’t matter any more. These days people don’t want to be transported to emotional territories where they don’t know how to react.”
—Hector Babenko (b. 1946)