"border" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yet the borders of Europe-a concept dating back to classical antiquity-are somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term "continent" can incorporate cultural and political elements.
- Nevertheless, some Arab states that were once little more than collections of tribes within arbitrary borders are becoming more cohesive political entities.
- In the east, it is divided from Valeria by an arbitrary north-south border which is tangent to the east end of lacus Pelso (Lake Balaton).
- Picard ordered his fleet to a halt one AU out from the arbitrary border those ships defined, spread out enough to prevent the Carnelians from attempting an englobement.
- Modern Africa has been riddled with such conflicts since the colonial powers saddled the continent with arbitrary borders.
- Indeed, many islanders and mainlanders say they have little in common except for an arbitrary border.
- Mixing Past With Present The Communists' antinational policies left other former Soviet republics with arbitrary borders and mixed populations, some of which are now the source of conflict and dispute.
- As a result of this rather arbitrary border (the criterion for forming a territorial unit was a population figure of 20,000), Breitenthal wound up a border town.
- Many scholars point out, however, that Afghanistan is hardly the only country in the world with arbitrary borders and a mix of ethnic and religious groups.
- African leaders hold few notions as sacred as the usually arbitrary borders drawn by and inherited from their European colonial rulers, because those frontiers define their power.
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