Even so, rock's irritation value wasn't just a territorial imperative.

Religious, political and territorial imperatives continue to drive international terrorist activity.

Wars were once fought over individual freedom or territorial imperative.

The territorial imperative was Jackson’s order of the day.

Spurred by territorial imperatives and, all too often, sheer greed.

The Territorial Imperative was widely read and exerted major cultural influence.

Aggressive, too," Casper remarked, "so they have a territorial imperative.

Which gives you a flavor of the seriousness and territorial imperatives in the writing of the books.

This is the "territorial imperative" that green critics celebrate, at once persuasive and inhumane.

The Territorial Imperative caused significant scientific and popular controversy.

As portrayed, each character retains his territorial imperative.

And if these creatures follow the pattern of reptilian life on Terra, they would most certainly have territorial imperatives.

Because there is a territorial imperative that separates the two departments, which is caused by their separate rescue units.

The Territorial Imperative further developed the nascent science of ethology and increased public interest in human origins.

You are here because you wished to avoid the contagion of territorial imperatives that has plagued humans since time began.

In reporting its concerns to the Parliament, the Supreme Court has not been motivated by any sense of territorial imperative.

The territorial imperative was bred into humans as deeply as was their need for oxygen and water.

This particular ideology is known throughout the White power movement as the Northwest Territorial Imperative.

The Territorial Imperative develops these theses with a special emphasis on the hold that territory has on man.

It might only have been the territorial imperative; it could as easily have been apprehension, even fear.

Territorial imperative?

Developers are more outspoken, but they like to pretend that special circumstances mean they are not violating anyone's territorial imperatives.

He ruminated on whether the earth was a recording device and how to escape the territorial imperatives built into DNA.

Could Carnegie Hall be the next to tumble to Ms. Moss's territorial imperative?

Even vastly superior forces of invaders are ultimately defeated by the passions and "territorial imperatives" of local cultures.