How to Use territorial dispute in a Sentence

territorial dispute

noun
  • For the last three years, the corporate world has been locked in a territorial dispute.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The territorial dispute dates back to a long history of kingdom rivalry.
    — Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The territorial dispute over the islands remains one of the Gulf’s most persistent flashpoints.
    — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The territorial dispute over the islands remains one of the Gulf’s most persistent flashpoints.
    — Sam Metz, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Venezuela also remains locked in a territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo region.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As with Bir Tawil, these western pockets of land would go to whichever country loses the larger territorial dispute.
    — Richard Collett, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That was more than a decade after China had wielded the materials as a weapon against Tokyo during a 2010 territorial dispute.
    — Alastair Gale, Bloomberg, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That was more than a decade after China had wielded the materials as a weapon against Tokyo during a 2010 territorial dispute.
    — Josh Xiao Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Philippines also has a long-running territorial dispute with China over islands in the South China Sea.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The outlet reported that nine people, including a baby, were killed on the beach last month during instances of violence which local police attributed to the ongoing territorial dispute between the groups.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Venezuelan defense minister’s accusations come against the backdrop of the long-running territorial dispute over the Essequibo region, a resource-rich area claimed by both Venezuela and Guyana.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • An arbitral tribunal in The Hague ruled largely in favor of the Philippines and against China in a 2016 ruling on the territorial dispute that Beijing says is invalid.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In 2012, Chinese crowds gathered for anti-Japan protests over a territorial dispute, smashed Japanese brand cars and vandalized Japanese restaurants.
    — Chan Ho-Him, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tokyo has an unresolved territorial dispute with Moscow over the Northern Territories, also known in Russia as the Southern Kuril Islands, in the Russian far east.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Venezuela remains locked in a territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo region, which Caracas claims despite an international arbitration ruling in Guyana's favor.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But the glancing references to Western Sahara’s decades-old territorial dispute, depicted here as a mere unexpected obstacle in the characters’ quest for a transformative experience, belie a deeper history that is not simply a logistical inconvenience.
    — Álex Maroño Porto, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Yet the relationship is still fraught with tension regarding longstanding territorial dispute; the most recent flare-up happened after an Indian citizen born in Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as its territory, was detained in Shanghai’s airport for 18 hours.
    — Brian Wong, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement Pakistan and India’s territorial dispute over Kashmir is deep-seated, stemming from the 1947 British partition of India, which established the borders between Pakistan and India.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Formed in Pakistan, the Sunni Muslim militant group is predominant in the Kashmir region, which has been involved in an often-bloody territorial dispute since the partition of India and Pakistan as the British left the subcontinent in 1947 after 300 years of colonial rule.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026

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