The gains in Rhode Island and Maine were attributed, in part, to the expanding borders of the Boston suburbs.
Jewish life was restored where it had been extinguished, and the expanding borders of a post-national Europe offered new opportunities to Jews scattered across borders.
"Ultimately all these settlements — their presence, their expansion, their expanded borders and so on — they're all illegal, and we don't recognize their legitimacy," she said.
"New York in Store" shows some of the places your MetroCard can take you, once you accept the city's expanding borders.
But Nicholas' overconfidence in Crimea in part led to the Crimean war with Britain and France, whose leaders sought to stop Russia's expanding borders and to slow its influence in the Middle East.
Instead of being the last Great Power to join a fight (and thus coming in fresh and strong), it assumed the opposite role: It would place its forces in the front line, along the newly expanded borders of insecurity — Berlin, the Mediterranean, Korea, Southeast Asia.
Any fundamentalist pan-Islamic movement, even a Shiite-inspired one, must embrace the fact that the Prophet, and later his Caliphs, sought to build empires with temporary but expanding borders, not nations with fixed borders and identities.
Canada, a major Arctic player and key opponent to Russia in the quest for expanded borders in the Far North looked at that military expansionism with concern.
From a blood-soaked continent, it forged a new era of peace, prosperity, open societies, and the triumph of "soft power" within its expanding borders.
As it relates to our nation, empire must be lifted beyond the mere notion of sovereign and expanding borders, but instead understood as a system that controls psychologies and influences people's actions.
