twelve-mile limit
Americannoun
noun
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The Nimitz was in international waters, beyond the twelve-mile limit any nation can claim.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Pack a lunch, and I’ll see you out past the twelve-mile limit.
From Forbes ● Aug. 17, 2011
Having found rich deposits of oil and natural gas way beyond the three-or even twelve-mile limit, oilmen wanted the new laws to extend national ocean rights out to the edge of the continental shelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soviet Russia's decision not to insist on a twelve-mile limit for British trawlers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They were outside the twelve-mile limit," Scotty pointed out.
From Smugglers' Reef by John Blaine
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