How to Use extraterritorial in a Sentence

extraterritorial

adjective
  • The property is split between the extraterritorial jurisdictions of the cities of Conroe and Willis.
    Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The law is also extraterritorial, meaning it can be applied to anyone in any country.
    The Economist, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Of these, fewer than half a dozen are in a position to pursue extraterritorial cases.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • The state is the only one with extraterritorial areas for police services outside of city limits.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
  • That court ruled there is a presumption against extraterritorial reach.
    Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2017
  • In 1943, the United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The new law also contains abroad extraterritorial reach – meaning that their laws apply to anyone in the world, even those who have never gone near Hong Kong – and authorities have wasted no time in putting the provision to practice.
    Fox News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • His case, however, has been cited by Russian politicians and pro-Kremlin news media outlets as a prime example of the brazen use of extraterritorial powers by the United States.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In 2021, two new laws on data security asserted the extraterritorial reach of the Chinese state over any data on Chinese citizens anywhere in the world.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The move quickly drew criticism from the US and British governments, which took issue with the extraterritorial application of the security law.
    Kanis Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The global body has a special extraterritorial status that may exempt it from national health measures.
    Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The extraterritorial nature of the security law, which purports to apply to anyone in the world, regardless of whether alleged offenses are committed in Hong Kong, has sparked alarm far beyond the city itself.
    James Griffiths, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The 5,200 acres are in Fort Worth’s extraterritorial jurisdiction in Parker and Tarrant counties.
    Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The incident appears to be a test case for the extraterritorial reach of the controversial national security law, which was implemented in Hong Kong one year ago.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 7 June 2021
  • Tomball’s annexation takes the property, which is also known as the Willow Cree campus, out of the city of Houston’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
    Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 22 May 2018
  • The country whose government most actively enforces its extraterritorial law against foreign bribery is a vast haven for illicit wealth.
    Alexandra Wrage, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • China’s economic and diplomatic clout has meant that few countries are willing or able to do much to challenge its extraterritorial legal maneuvers.
    Steven Lee Myers and Chris Horton, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Azerbaijan argues that this means that the corridor should not be part of Armenia (nor Azerbaijan) but be extraterritorial, controlled by neutral forces, such as Russian border guards.
    Jack Nasher, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The world’s authoritarians are getting more brazen in their extraterritorial reach, and the eight-year prison sentence handed out last week to Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is a reminder that the West has been too timid in its response.
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • The warrants are the first example of the city's law enforcement using extraterritorial power to go after activists who aren't living in Hong Kong since Beijing passed a new national security law that seeks to undermine the movement.
    Tim O'Donnell, TheWeek, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The regulation, which like many Chinese laws has extraterritorial reach, requires enhanced protection for the first two categories.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2021
  • About 800 acres of the property sit in the city of Midlothian, with the remainder split between the extraterritorial jurisdictions of Midlothian and Waxahachie.
    Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • The extraterritorial enterprise began on a Friday afternoon when a C-141 Starlifter cargo plane bearing prisoners from Afghanistan touched down at the remote outpost.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • But Lee insisted that extraterritorial power exists in the security laws of many countries.
    Kanis Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Though Chinese officials denounce America as a bully with a long reach, some scholars wonder whether China might one day begin issuing more extraterritorial judgments of its own.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • The City Council last week approved the final reading of an ordinance that will establish a media production development zone in the city limits and its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
    Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, a member of France’s parliament wrote a report that addressed the issue, arguing that France needed to develop legal tools to protect its companies from laws in other countries that target extraterritorial conduct.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 12 June 2020
  • Over the last decade, the United States has also begun to rely on secondary or extraterritorial sanctions, which penalize third parties who conduct business with a designee, effectively forcing others to adhere to U.S. policies.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • China has criticized the sanctions program as extraterritorial action, and instead deepened trade and diplomatic ties.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • He was acquitted on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiring to commit extraterritorial murder of a U.S. national.
    Jacques Billeaud, azcentral, 16 Mar. 2018

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