Sentence examples for border violation from inspiring English sources

In the week since Turkey shot down a Russian jet over an alleged border violation, the rhetoric between the countries has grown increasingly barbed.

Turkey has been accused of hypocrisy over the downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, after it emerged that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself said "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack".

Speaking on Wednesday, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov recalled the Turkish president's own comments, and said it was "hypocritical" of Turkey to use the alleged brief border violation as an excuse for this week's incident.

In 2012, the Syrians shot down a Turkish jet which had entered its airspace, and Erdoğan's furious response at the time was that "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack".

On Wednesday, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused Mr Erdoğan of hypocrisy, after a similar incident involving a Turkish plane in 2012 saw the Turkish president declare that "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack".

"A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack," Mr Erdogan said at the time, threatening in response that "every military element approaching Turkey from the Syrian border… will be assessed as a military threat and treated as a military target".

In the process, they created the conditions for all the subsequent border violations, including those which we see today.

But Mr. Annan brushed aside Lebanese objections, saying there were only a couple of border violations by Israel and they would be cleared up swiftly.

Pakistani military officials said the Indian military killed a civilian, the latest in a round of accusations of cross border violations in the disputed region of Kashmir, which the two countries claim in its entirety.

As Putin's human rights violations – and border violations – accumulated, the European Union and America did very little to take a strong stand that might have altered Putin's course when it would have been relatively easy to do.

Last week, a Georgian court sentenced the captain of a Turkish cargo ship to 24 years in prison for border violations, though he was quickly released at Turkey's behest.