"border" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is talk of either scrapping or maintaining the borders inherited from the era of colonisation.
- The borders of these states, inherited from British India, were not suitable for easy administration.
- As a result Somaliland reclaimed her sovereignty rights, its territorial integrity and its separate national identity with its original International defined borders inherited from the United Kingdom of Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
- Their prime concerns, as in most of Africa, are to maintain hard-won independence, create a nation within the borders inherited from the colonial past, and mobilize an untrained, hungry population to work for development.
- Ethnic ties between the people of far northern Ghana (notably the Mossi) and Burkina, divided by artificial borders inherited from colonial rule, grew stronger as easy border crossings and free exchange of goods and services contributed to marked improvements in the material and the social welfare of peoples on both sides of the border.
- However, there is a risk of a domino effect on a continent traumatised by wars caused by artificial borders inherited from colonial times.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.