Sentence examples for a frontier on from inspiring English sources

It was wild, distant, dusty, unruly, potentially pagan, polyglot, a frontier on the very edge of society.

He was born on February 3 1904, in a frontier town on the Istrian peninsula near Trieste.

"It was a chance to tell a frontier story on two levels" says Lisa Joy Nolan, one of the show's creators.

NASA is sending a rover to a remote frontier on harsh terrain that's unfriendly to humans.

And yet the Internet is doing very well for a frontier town on the brink of anarchy.

Originally it was a frontier post on a strategic road (now a highway) that crossed the Carpathians through Bran Pass in Transylvania.

The so-called trigger line dividing Kurdish-controlled territory in the north from the rest of Iraq is more and more like a frontier defended on both sides by armed force.

Settled in 1872 with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railway, Dodge City attained notoriety as a frontier town on the Santa Fe Trail, the rendezvous of picturesque characters, the centre of freight lines, and the headquarters of the cattle business.

Back in 1857, when it beat out its rivals Toronto and Montreal in a bid to become Canada's national capital, the Governor General bemoaned Parliament's move to what seemed a frontier outpost on the Ottawa River as an "exile to wilderness".

In La Nueva Capital, a frontier outpost on the edge of Tegucigalpa, families are still moving into houses they cobbled together from scraps of scavenged wood planks and cinder blocks.

Similarly, Joy told us that Westworld is "a chance to tell a frontier story on two levels".