Sentence examples for border holding from inspiring English sources

Yes, on the morning he was supposed to give himself up for arrest, he fled in a Ford Bronco towards the border holding a gun at his head.

Herminio Blanco, Mexico's trade minister, says this issue tops his list of NAFTA-related complaints against the United States: "We simply cannot afford to have this archaic, inefficient system at the border holding up our multi-billion dollar trade .Mexican irritation is matched, if not exceeded, by that of politicians and businessmen from America's four border states.

An estimated 40,000 Russian troops are massed on Ukraine's eastern border, holding what Russian officials say are military exercises.

The brothers' first race was a wade through the river and a dash across the border, holding hands.

The Europe-size stretch of Russia along the border holds fewer than 6.2 million people, down 5percentt since 1991.

The hut, on a dead-end street paved for the sole purpose of crossing that border, holds two important distinctions.

Zabadani, a town of 100,000 near the Lebanese border held by rebels for nearly a month, capitulated to government forces on February 11th.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes had seized the last parts of the border held by Isis.

Most of the inhabitants of Majdal Shams, a large village close to the border, hold Syrian citizenship and have family on the other side of the border, from whom they are cut off.

He said: "This kind of scepticism is even quite common in Scotland, where both previous survey research and more recent opinion polls have suggested that those living north of the border hold a rather more favourable view of the EU.

Mr. Razvozzhayev's lawyers say that after he was abducted, he was driven across the Russian border, held for nearly two days in the basement of a house, denied food and subjected to what has been described as psychological torture, including death threats against his family.