Now, establishment figures are trying to convince a populist President that the border matters less than he thought, an idea they could never sufficiently impress upon the American people.
Experts who follow United States-Canada relations say that they do not expect Ottawa to retaliate overtly if the Keystone project is not approved, but that a rejection could influence future decisions on purchases of American F-35 fighter jets and other trade and border matters.
The border mattered little, the popular support was the same.
The addition of an office in Paris "will greatly enhance our capacity to handle complex, cross-border matters for our global and local clients," Joseph Blum, managing partner of Latham's London office, said in a statement.
Still they were confident that the District Authorities of Clarens, with whom they convene regularly to discuss cross-border matters, will bring up the issue in one of their meetings.
The Convention should draft two texts: a constitution, as desired by the majority, and an agreement between independent nations which cooperate on cross-border matters that we cannot solve ourselves in our own countries' parliaments.
In MS lesions, ROIs were positioned at the white matter border, grey matter border, white matter lesion center and grey matter lesion center.
During the user-training process in WSA with automated ROI selection, the researcher 'trained' the program to recognise the cerebral cortex, grey/white matter border, white matter and empty spaces by selecting a few segments of well-defined areas within each region from two scanned images within each class.
Globalization has raised the world's wealth to unprecedented levels by presuming borders matter less than intelligence, drive, experience and ability.
And so, Mr Middelhoff says, he "drew the consequences".Mr Middelhoff stepped over the blurred border between matters of strategy and those of corporate cultureIn other words, Mr Middelhoff stepped over the blurred border between matters of strategy and those of corporate culture.
If the Palestinians refuse, European officers at the scene will have the final say.But while the slight concession to its sovereignty is symbolically important to the Palestinian Authority and to Gazans who will once again be able to visit relatives on the other side of the border, what matters more in practical terms are the deal's other parts.
