Sentence examples for behind closed borders from inspiring English sources

"For countries in the Balkans that were living behind closed borders, this is also their dream — but it is one that is falling apart before their eyes.

Obama did not refer explicitly to Trudeau's decision to personally welcome Syrian refugees at Toronto's airport last December, but he urged Americans not to retreat behind closed borders.

The accomplishments of those unknown people in what are now the republics of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan began to emerge over several decades of excavations by archaeologists of the Soviet Union, who worked diligently but in academic silence behind closed borders.

An international tribunal that worked behind closed doors to arbitrate a cross-border dispute between a United States company and the Mexican government ordered Mexico to pay nearly $17 million in compensatory damages yesterday for failing to protect the company's rights as a foreign investor.

So you can close borders.

Pakistan closes border with Afghanistan.

'Closed borders are smugglers' gold'.

They have since closed the borders.

Hungary has closed its borders altogether.

Are we to close our borders?

Iran, too, has closed its border.