extraterritoriality

Examples

• All

• Unilateral concessions forced on the Chinese, such as extraterritoriality and foreign settlements in the treaty ports, are still perceived as a humiliating loss of sovereignty.

  Academic text (1999)

• Moreover, the treaty concluded with China on January 11, 1943, to relinquish extraterritoriality, further demonstrated that the United States intended to give formal expression to China's "Great Power" status.

  Academic text (2000)

• In a word, it is extraterritoriality, a wonderful big word, which means in this context that these laws purport to apply to actions that take place outside the United States and that do not involve nationals of the United States.

  Academic text (1994)

• The scandal of such actions led to organized lobbying of governments by ECPAT to introduce laws of extraterritoriality.

  Academic text (2001)

• Acceptance of extraterritoriality in the Canadian legal system indicates that the reaction to U.S. enforcement activities involving Canadians should be somewhat more accommodating than during the Potash and uranium disputes.

  Academic text (1994)

• On their own initiative rather than their governments, European consuls and residents were claiming extraterritoriality and freedom from the jurisdiction of local courts. European Alexandrians' arrogance, noticed by Bayle St John in 1846, increased thereafter.

  Academic text (2010)

• Due to extraterritoriality, the embassy staff were not subject to local laws in the host country.

• The concept of extraterritoriality allows foreign diplomats to operate without interference from local authorities.

• Extraterritoriality means that citizens from one country are protected from the local laws of another country.

Synonyms

E

exterritoriality

vsextraterritoriality

• Formal

9.9

Being free from local laws, usually for diplomats at embassies

is broader, applies to diplomatic cases and international agreements

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology