Definitions
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- verb Alternative form of
territorialize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb extend by adding territory
- verb place on a territorial basis
- verb organize as a territory
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Examples
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But when you 'territorialise' petty drug-dealing, you have to control the territory, which also means controlling the people living there, "he says.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS News 2009
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The ANC does not own or territorialise culture: creativity has no fences or boundaries and expression is free.
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The ANC does not own or territorialise culture: creativity has no fences or boundaries and expression is free.
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Outlining his plans just before the First World War, Theodor Herzl wrote: 'We shall extra-territorialise Jerusalem so that it will belong to nobody and everybody, its Holy Places the joint possession of all Believers.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Similarly, the idea that the Westphalian contract’s implementation has been imposed on much of the world is fine and not particularly controversial and so on — whether French and British and ex-Soviet Georgian governments, Senegalese and Zairian and Algerian liberation movements, Liberian and Israeli ideologies of return, what have you, most people have very concrete experience with the desire to territorialise a nation-state that fits into a Westphalian world.
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