extraterritoriality
- noun
- /ˌɛkstrəˌtɛrɪˈtɔːriəlɪti/
- Formal
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extraterritorialidad
- Many countries have debated the implications of extraterritoriality when it comes to environmental protection laws affecting foreign companies.
- uniformity and extraterritoriality
- issue of extraterritoriality
- extraterritoriality arises
Examples
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Aside from often being inconsistent with international law, extraterritoriality is an unwanted intrusion into a country's sovereignty, and Canada sometimes suffers nightmares about the firmness and durability of its own sovereignty.
Academic text (1998) -
As between Canada and the United States, there should not be considered to be a problem of extraterritoriality or conflict of jurisdiction in cases where the activity involved is selling goods from one country into the other.
Academic text (1991) -
First, for Canada, extraterritoriality is not a theoretical issue; it is real.
Academic text (1998) -
The complaints charge the United States with once again engaging in extraterritoriality.
Academic text (1998) -
But when the issue of extraterritoriality arises within the context of a U.S. sanction program, it is always a hot-button issue on the Canadian side.
Academic text (1998) -
Canada and the United States, so often on the same wavelength on so many issues, are miles apart on extraterritoriality, unilateral sanctions, and Helms-Burton in particular.
Academic text (1998) -
So by the early '80s, the Americans had begun to understand that it was not such a good idea to aggressively enforce extraterritoriality without consultation, cooperation, negotiation, and so forth.
Academic text (1994) -
In the political sphere, the North American antidrug strategy, which has opened a path for the principle of extraterritoriality (supported by the U.S. Supreme Court), likewise figures prominently.
Academic text (2000) -
The principle of extraterritoriality allows nations to enforce laws on their citizens even when they are outside the country's borders.
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Under extraterritoriality, a country can apply its laws to businesses operating in other nations, impacting international relations.
Synonyms
A country's use of its laws in other countries
Antonyms
- Specialized
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How International
73
4.1
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
extraterritoriality = extraterritorial (transparent) = extra + territory + ial + ity
Nominalization of the adjective 'extraterritorial' with '-ity' is a standard, transparent process.
Etymology
Extraterritoriality is built from extra- 'outside' and territory 'land', and so it describes a country using its law outside its own land, for example when a state says its rules also apply to people abroad.