three-mile limit

I wouldn't want to come closer than the three-mile limit.

Once past the ice and the three-mile limit, they made top speed.

Fishing inside the three-mile limit is regulated by the states.

American law allows gambling at sea only outside the three-mile limit.

As a result, the three-mile limit has become largely obsolete.

I do not think I need say anything about what is known as the three-mile limit.

The smart ones stay well within the three-mile limit.

I suppose he intended to go beyond the three-mile limit as you demanded.

This became universally adopted and developed into the three-mile limit.

A murder aboard a gambling ship is beyond the three-mile limit.

At the time, national maritime interests were restricted only to the three-mile limit.

The commission, representing the states, deals with fisheries within the three-mile limit.

He was safe out there beyond the three-mile limit and he knew it.

Here, outside the continental three-mile limit, we are theoretically exempt from state and federal law.

Parents said Talgarth was right on the three-mile limit and some children travelled free, while about 23 had to pay.

Actually, even the three-mile limit was being overly generous, as everyone understood perfectly well.

Right past the three-mile limit and back again.

California prohibits whole body burial within its state-asserted three-mile limit.

The United States only claims a three-mile limit for its own territorial waters.

The restricted fishing zone will be expanded from its current three-mile limit to 30 miles offshore.

You're supposed to stay outside the three-mile limit," I flared, "and not try to go mountain climbing in the middle of the floor.

They also claimed an interest in the fur seals, involving the right to protect them outside the three-mile limit.

The United States recognizes three-mile limits but normally does not challenge a 12-mile claim.

Was it by private plane that had touched down or maybe by boat outside the three-mile limit.

The convention, which operated only outside the three-mile limit from land, was defined as follows: