Sentence examples for A borderland from inspiring English sources

Courts occupy a borderland between the private and the public.

The effect is unsettling, taking us to some edge, a borderland of metamorphosis.

relationship seemed a good answer to the question that Tarasyuk posed in 1994 about keeping Ukraine from becoming a borderland.

The worry is that kidnapping may become a new business, further destabilising a borderland already on a war footing.

What being banned tells me is that fashion has entered a borderland between the old and the new.

The Spumifers look as if they had escaped from the margins of a Medieval manuscript illumination, from a borderland where miniscule demons were sometimes allowed to cavort freely.

The authorities in Beijing have seen the same land as a lawless borderland, a place to be controlled.In October 2012 the trial of a Burmese drug lord, Naw Kham, who was sentenced to death for the killing of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in northern Thailand, sharpened the sense in China that the Sino-Burmese border remains a breeding ground for criminal gangs and drug traffickers.

In the century before the American Revolution, New Hampshire was a mountainous borderland between New England and New France, an Abenaki Indian enclave and a nursery -- on all sides -- of terror, counter-raiding and war.

"He came of age, and learned to be a master, on a racial borderland where the definitions and boundaries of race were dangerously fluid," Mr. Wiencek writes.

Mr. Wells, 63, the son of a Caribbean sugar worker who came to New Haven in the early 1920's, grew up in a time that had a similar borderland quality.

"All this is the mischief of politicians," said Dominico Owiti, who lives in a new trouble spot, Sondu, a bushy borderland between the Luos and the Kalenjins.