(n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Osborne told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "We have got to make some tough decisions, but the priority is healthcare, children's education, early years provision and the big infrastructure developments like Crossrail, Mersey Gateway, the synchrotron, broadband.
(2) Paying over the odds, each was determined to build what they imagined would be the ultimate gateway to the Games.
(3) [Burma] is considered the front line in the battle against artemisinin resistance as it forms a gateway for resistance to spread to the rest of the world,” said Woodrow, who led the Oxford study.
(4) Using land lines, modems and network gateways, many such quite distinct computer programs or databases can be made accessible from a single terminal.
(5) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(8) A principal gateway for integrating the autonomic responses are a small collection of neurons in a region of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), containing a cluster of neurons of the C1 adrenergic cell group, the C1 area.
(9) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(10) Together they form the gateway to the vast Oil Crescent, a series of oilfields stretching hundreds of miles through the Sahara containing Africa’s largest reserves.
(11) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(12) Putting BBC3 online feeds into Hall's desire to ramp up the iPlayer, which he sees not as a useful spin-off for catching up on programmes a viewer might have missed, but a "gateway" which (younger) viewers and listeners will increasingly use to access all of the BBC's programmes.
(13) Treasury insiders said they were already involved in talks with 30 companies over the proposed projects, including proposals for the £600m Mersey Gateway project, a six-lane toll bridge between Widnes and Runcorn.
(14) Kinshasa was the gateway for all the riches of what was then called the Belgian Congo, as rubber, gems, minerals, ivory and exotic woods made their way out of the country.
(15) Each child needs a health assessment and subsequent care.” There are already 4,029 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Britain, most of them in the “gateway” authorities of Kent, Croydon and Hillingdon.
(16) The town itself also marks a strategic gateway connecting Damascus to the Syrian south.
(17) Those "other radical groups," as Oliver dismissively referred to them, must be the more than 60 first nations (aboriginal bands) of British Columbia that have signed a declaration saying "we will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines or other similar tar sands projects to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon."
(18) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(19) The closest rail is the Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway (handy for east London).
(20) It may also become a gateway to other information networks.
Territory
Definition:
(n.) A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
(n.) The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
(n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
(4) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(5) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(6) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(7) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
(8) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(9) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
(10) In addition to published reports and theses, it also includes unpublished data provided to the Australian Institute of Health by State and Territory health authorities.
(11) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(12) After arriving by helicopter from the nearby island of Ulleungdo, Lee said that South Korea "must continue to protect its territory".
(13) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
(14) They're into Philly territory on their 38 and looking quite smooth.
(15) The six helicopters were donated by the U.S. to help in the war on drugs in Guatemala's territory, local media reported.
(16) The islets, 3 000 to 5 000, were transplanted to alloxan diabetic recipients, in a territory, preferentially with portal-hepatic drainage (mesentery and spleen).
(17) CCA following cerebral infarction was seen in patients with massive lesions in the territory of the middle cerebral artery.
(18) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
(19) The gastrointestinal territories innervated by the gastric, celiac, and hepatic abdominal vagi were identified in rats with selective branch vagotomies by means of 1) anterograde tracing with the carbocyanine dye DiI injected into the dorsal motor nucleus and 2) measurement of cervical vagal stimulation-induced motility responses throughout the gut axis.
(20) This showed that regardless of the small territory of the country the districts are sufficiently differing between each other (due to the various degrees of integration) so that they could not be grouped together by similar values of intensity of poultry breeding and epizootic conjuncture with regard to Newcastle disease.