high seas in English

noun
1
the open ocean, especially that not within any country's jurisdiction.
In customary law, only the flag state has jurisdiction to enforce regulations applicable to vessels on the high seas .
noun
    international waters

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1. Now, what are the high seas?

2. We are talking about the high seas.

3. Pirates are Bandits of the high seas

4. An exciting swashbuckling arcade action game set on the high seas!

5. In time, all the high seas should be covered by RFOs.

6. Buccaneering (usually uncountable, plural Buccaneerings) robbery on the high seas; piracy; Translations

7. Pollutants dumped on the high seas eventually end up on the shores.

8. Search and Rescue teams conduct medical air evacuation on the high seas

9. Buccaneering (usually uncountable, plural Buccaneerings) robbery on the high seas; piracy; Translations 33

10. You're right to worry, falling in love with an adventuress on the high seas.

11. We can stop the collision course of 50 percent of the planet with the high seas.

12. Fishing for pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) in the high seas of the Bering Sea shall be prohibited.

13. The High Seas Fleet, including Kaiser, conducted a number of sweeps and advances into the North Sea.

14. Search and Rescue Teams Conduct Medical Air Evacuation on the High Seas [ 2006-03-06 ] National Defence:

15. Means High seas overfishing remains a global problem that has drawn international attention from all sectors of society.

16. Aye aye Captain is a game about crewing a ship on the high seas of the 1500 and 1600s

17. The High Seas Fleet, including Friedrich der Grosse, conducted a number of sweeps and advances into the North Sea.

18. For example, Vietnam has purchased a number of combat aircraft and warships with the capability to operate in high seas.

19. Pirate Baldric; Pirate Baldric Large View: You'll adventure the high seas with swaggering confidence wearing our great-looking Pirate Baldric

20. With this turn, Hipper was falling back on the High Seas Fleet, then about 60 miles (97 km) behind him.

21. (a) whether the United States has asked India to join a worldwide network to combat illegal activities on the high seas;

22. In the high seas and oceans 150 thousand tonnes of fish were caught, mainly redfish, mackerel, cod, red plaice , and black halibut.

23. Calls upon States whose naval vessels and military aircraft operate on the high seas and airspace off the coast of Somalia to use on the high seas and airspace off the coast of Somalia the necessary means, in conformity with international law, as reflected in the Convention, for the repression of acts of piracy;

24. In her trials in 1889, Kotaka demonstrated that she could exceed the role of coastal defense, and was capable of accompanying larger warships on the high seas.

25. Lyndon Johnson’s Baseless allegation of “open aggression on the high seas” by North Vietnam was a transparent attempt to justify his own far broader aggression in Indochina

26. Though Crabbing or clamming in an inlet or a sandbar is not quite fishing on the high seas, you still need tough gear that can handle the environment

27. Bureau of Meteorology web homepage provides the Australian community with access to weather forecasts, severe weather warnings, observations, flood information, marine and high seas forecasts and climate information

28. With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

29. Synonyms for Buccaneering noun hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or …

30. Last year we worked hard with the sponsors of the resolution in an ultimately futile attempt to allay our concerns about their seeming desire to restrict maritime rights of free passage on the high seas.

31. Hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it Familiarity information: BuccaneerinG used as a noun is very rare.

32. Of German Bailors at Kiel may have resulted from the high seas fleet he Ing ordered out to meet the allied fleets Klensburg Ik ft seaport of RO.OOO population 4n mile* northwe*t of Kiel Apenrade

33. Summary outcomes of a workshop to design marine protected areas for seamounts and the abyssal nodule province in Pacific high seas, held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, United States of America, from # to # ctober

34. 1. hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it Familiarity information: Buccaneering used as a noun is very rare.

35. 1-10,1.9 Airspace Under international law, Airspace is classified as either national Airspace (that over the land, internal waters, archipelagic waters, and territorial seas of a State) or international Airspace (that over contiguous zones, EEZs, the high seas, and territory not …

36. Therefore, MRK activities were restricted to inland patrols on the Bassac River, the Mekong, and the Tonle Sap River in the vicinity of the namesake Great Lake whilst high seas operations were limited to routine inshore patrolling in the Gulf of Thailand.

37. Calls upon States interested in the security of maritime activities to take part actively in the fight against piracy on the high seas off the coast of Somalia, in particular by deploying naval vessels and military aircraft, in accordance with international law, as reflected in the Convention;

38. Calls upon States interested in the security of maritime activities to take part actively in the fight against piracy on the high seas off the coast of Somalia, in particular by deploying naval vessels and military aircraft, in accordance with international law, as reflected in the Convention

39. On the high seas, or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State, every State may seize a pirate ship or aircraft, or a ship or aircraft taken by piracy and under the control of pirates, and arrest the persons and seize the property on board.

40. At present, a web of legislation – including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines, and the Fish Stocks Agreement, as well as the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals – governs activities that may affect biodiversity on the high seas.

41. ‘On the high seas, or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State, every State may seize a pirate ship or aircraft, or a ship or aircraft taken by piracy and under the control of pirates, and arrest the persons and seize the property on board.

42. While Jeanne Baret is a fascinating subject and admirable heroine for any woman, the execution of The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe suffers as Glynis Ridley interjects too much supposition for a woman who left virtually no paper trail.

43. Buccaneering: 1 n hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it Synonyms: piracy Type of: highjacking , hijacking robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force

44. Although he was a vigorous exponent of the expansion of Admiralty jurisdiction, Justice Story for the Court in The Steamboat Thomas Jefferson947 adopted a restrictive English rule confining Admiralty jurisdiction to the high seas and upon rivers as far as the ebb and flow of the tide extended.948 The demands of commerce on western

45. For the purposes of continuity and seamless operation of air traffic services in particular within Functional Airspace Blocks, the provisions of Annex 11 to the Chicago Convention may be applied in airspace over high seas in a manner that is consistent with how those provisions are applied over the territory of the member States.

46. Owing to the substantial superiority of the Royal Navy's surface forces, Germany's Imperial Navy (in World War I) and Kriegsmarine (in World War II) had little hope of seizing control of the high seas, but with submarines the Germans could hope to defeat the British by choking off their crucial access to seaborne commerce.

47. The numbers of those disappeared by the state over its history are staggering: North Koreans resettled to South Korea who then return to China and get caught and forced back to North Korea; the estimated 100,000 South Koreans taken into North Korea and disappeared after the Korean war; 11 South Korean nationals abducted in 1969 from a Korean Air flight hijacked and diverted to Pyongyang; South Korean fishermen taken on the high seas in the 1960s and 1970s, and foreign nationals from Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Europe, and the Middle East who were kidnapped by North Korean agents and never seen again.