How to Use exclusive economic zone in a Sentence

exclusive economic zone

noun
  • The missile landed in the sea in Japan's exclusive economic zone, about 100 miles from its coast.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In the year that followed the furor over the Galápagos, the bulk of the Chinese fleet kept a greater distance from Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone.
    Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The boats are moored at the Whitsun Reef within Manila’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone, and there are fears the Chinese ships may try to claim the reefs.
    Benjamin Hall, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Five of the missiles landed in the exclusive economic zone off Japan’s coast, the first such occurrence.
    Edward Wong, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Two were within the Danish exclusive economic zone while the third is in the Swedish equivalent.
    Jan M. Olsen and Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The area is within the Philippines' 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
    Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Turkey doesn't recognize Cyprus as a state and claims 44% of the island's exclusive economic zone as its own.
    Menelaos Hadjicostis, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • The boats were moored at the Whitsun Reef within Manila's 200-mile exclusive economic zone..
    Reuters, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021
  • But the country’s granite islands and coral atolls sit within an exclusive economic zone of 1.4m sq km.
    The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Japan said five of the missiles landed in its exclusive economic zone waters.
    Rhoda Kwan, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The Chinese planes’ flight path crossed Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone but not its national air space.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Japan said North Korea had launched a ballistic missile that flew far enough to fall in its exclusive economic zone.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Strong winds pushed it away from the Chinese coast, where the collision happened, and into Japan's exclusive economic zone.
    Author: Chen Aizhu, Muyu Xu, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The episode came less than a week after North Korea launched a missile that landed off Japan’s coast, also in its exclusive economic zone.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The latest launch didn’t appear to have landed in Japan’s maritime exclusive economic zone, a spokesman for the Tokyo government said.
    Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The mother boat Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone to catch minke, Bryde’s and sei whales.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • Two of the four leaks were discovered in Sweden's exclusive economic zone, while the other two were in Danish waters.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • And yet each year growing numbers of Chinese commercial ships, thousands of miles from home, fish here, at times right on the edge of Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone.
    Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The missiles fell in waters outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
    Fox News, 26 May 2022
  • Some of these create exclusive economic zones where one country has access to the fish stocks; there are also some large oceanic preserves.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The ballistic missile launched early Wednesday was the first to splash down in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 miles off its coast, in nearly two years.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Tensions flared in 2020 over exploratory drilling rights in areas in the Mediterranean Sea where Greece and Cyprus claim their own exclusive economic zone, leading to a naval standoff.
    Matteo Cina, Fox News, 19 July 2022
  • On the first day of the drills last week, five Chinese ballistic missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone east of Taiwan, the first time any had landed in those waters.
    Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Fast Most countries control fishing or have agreements to share rights within a 200-mile exclusive economic zone around their coasts.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 June 2018
  • Tensions have been high as a Turkish seismic survey ship has searched for natural gas over the last two weeks in an area of the Mediterranean that Greece says is within its exclusive economic zone.
    Selcan Hacaoglu, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The actions around Taiwan go further — with Chinese missiles fired into the waters of Japan’s exclusive economic zone for the first time and with missiles fired over Taiwanese air space.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The mother factory ship Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as Japan's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone to catch minke, Bryde's and sei whales.
    Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • Japan said both missiles had landed outside its exclusive economic zone and that no damage had been reported to aircraft or vessels in the area.
    Stella Kim, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Teodoro characterized the Philippines’ refusal to back down in the waters within its 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone as a fight for the very existence of the Philippines.
    Ivan Watson, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The missile reached an altitude of about 30 miles and landed outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.
    Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023

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