(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(2) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
(3) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
(4) Putin's call on Sunday for the regularisation of the enclave's status would, paradoxically, put human rights on a more stable footing.
(5) The bomb hit a cultural centre in the small, predominantly Kurdish town, where hundreds of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations had gathered for a press briefing before a visit to the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Kobani to help with the reconstruction of the destroyed town.
(6) The latest tunnel was found during an Israeli military operation 100 metres into the Gaza side of the border in the Palestinian coastal enclave’s south.
(7) Nor, incidentally, is thigh-gap obsession new, it's just that it has only recently transferred over from the myopic enclave of the fashion world.
(8) Chibok is an enclave of mainly Christian families in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.
(9) The son of a railway worker, Aliev was born in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani enclave in Armenia.
(10) "All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s," Apple said in a statement.
(11) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(12) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(13) It was parked 100 metres or so away from the small one-roomed, one storey brick home Singh shared with his brother, who remains on trial, in the slum neighbourhood of Ravi Das colony, an enclave of poverty in otherwise relatively wealthy south Delhi.
(14) The US – which has repeatedly called on its Nato ally Turkey to provide more than humanitarian support to the Syrian Kurdish enclave – welcomed the peshmerga deployment, calling it a “step to degrade and ultimately defeat” Isis.
(15) This is the case with the enclavement and metatarsal osteotomies such as the Watermann procedure (25, 26).
(16) One 2007 NYPD report, titled "Radicalization in the West: the Homegrown Threat", stated that "enclaves of ethnic populations that are largely Muslim often serve as 'ideological sanctuaries' for the seeds of radical thought".
(17) In a speech prepared for delivery at a British thinktank, Jindal said some immigrants are seeking “to colonise western countries, because setting up your own enclave and demanding recognition of a no-go zone are exactly that”.
(18) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(19) She’s a moderator of the ShitRedditSays subreddit, known as SRS, which began as a collection of all the worst quotes of Reddit and has evolved into a sort of enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.
(20) This study compares modifications of Regnauld's enclavement procedure, the in situ "hat-shaped" and in situ "inverted" osteochondral graft.
Exclave
Definition:
(n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shift is a triumph for the Kremlin, which has long and vehemently argued that the shield is aimed at neutralising its intercontinental missiles; Moscow had warned of a return to a cold war arms race, and threatened to deploy nuclear missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave, surrounded by EU states.
(2) If Chesterfield were to join Sheffield, it would become an enclave (or, from Sheffield’s viewpoint, an exclave) within its former county.
(3) Moscow responded to the conciliatory moves by signalling the cancellation of threats to deploy short-range missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave, which sits within the EU.
(4) Firstly some small cross-border trade opened up with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, which borders Poland.
(5) One host city is Kaliningrad – an exclave hundreds of miles away from the rest of Russia – on the Baltic coast.
(6) A man attempted to drive from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad with 460kg of cheese stuffed in the boot and backseat of his car, the customs service said.
(7) With the demise of Clwyd they now find themselves in Denbighshire, while Flintshire has been reinstated as a smaller county, and without its exclaves, the larger of which had been situated between Denbighshire and Shropshire.
(8) Three people were killed – the bus driver, an assistant coach and a press officer – when gunmen fired on the coach in an Angolan exclave, also maiming nine other people.
(9) A third, Ilgar Nasibov, was brutally beaten and left for dead in the country’s Naxcivan exclave on 21 August.
(10) I now live with my family in Brighton , which is a coastal exclave of pseudo-London urbanity – a place where jaded addicts of megacity life wean themselves clean; metropolitan methadone.
(11) Or, more probably, it might become a sort of giant version of South Ossetia or Abkhazia, Georgia’s two Russian-occupied breakaway republics – a Kremlin-controlled puppet exclave, with its own local administration, “protected” by Russian troops and naval frigates.
(12) Proposals for Chesterfield to be an exclave of a Greater Sheffield seem straightforward in comparison.