Sentence examples for border upon from inspiring English sources

Its situation must always savor of weakness, sometimes border upon anarchy.

In 1857, a runaway slave named Dolores Brown argued in court that she was born south of the border, "upon the Guadalupe River, of Mexican parents".

This, combined with hints elsewhere that he isn't keeping up to date with Game of Thrones, seems to border upon a dangerous admission that he doesn't watch TV at all.

Milder forms of the depressive, anxiety and attention deficit disorders border upon, and are difficult to distinguish from, expectable everyday aches, pains, sufferings and performance problems in reaction to the stresses of college life.

He settled on Chadds Ford, just across the Delaware border, upon the Brandywine River -- the last natural defense before the Schuylkill River and Philadelphia.

The pigeon was reportedly coming from Iraq when customs employees tracked and captured it at the border, upon which they noticed it had strapped to its back a camouflaged knapsack stuffed with contraband.

Times are much happier now in this respect, but a certain closeness bordering upon containment culture still persists.

It seemed as if someone had pulled a curtain to one side to reveal a formless scene that bordered upon the underworld.

In some places, where the basin borders upon the basins of the Bug and the Western Dvina rivers, there is a flat swampy area.

Cameron's fascination with her bordered upon obsession, and Julia posed for more studies — nearly fifty, including one that the artist called "My Favorite Picture of all my works" — than anyone else whom Cameron photographed.

The industry's argument, he added, that subpoena power could be applied to an Internet service provider when songs were only momentarily passing through its data pipes, "borders upon the silly".