This is particularly so because the Philippines is far from being a country with closed borders.

The closed border with Greece and the special admission control because of it contributed for the process.

Recent changes such as the easy availability of salt from other regions and the closed border with Tibet have put the netsang system under pressure.

It is near the closed border with Algeria.

The Berlin Wall can also be called a "closed border".

"I don't think at the end of the 20th century we should think in terms of closed borders and repressive means," he said.

And we wanted to protest against the closed borders.

But it is not just an issue of closed borders.

Take a country like Afghanistan which is now almost surrounded by closed borders.

The Dead-faces were a fearsome race who lived behind closed borders.