Sentence examples for borderland area from inspiring English sources

Signs of future trouble occurred even before secession when in May Sudanese troops forcibly occupied the Abyei region, an oil-producing borderland area and a gateway for southward-bound refugees from conflict areas in Sudan that was claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.

All these routes were taken into account in the model, including the borderland area with Italy.

The borderland area to the south-east was in a state of semi-permanent warfare until the 18th century.

One of the by-products of the Revolution was the separation of the borderland areas inhabited by non-Russians.

Security is also an issue in borderland areas where there is still sporadic fighting between armed ethnic militias and the Myanmar army.

Lombard is a cultural anthropologist who studies African borderland areas where the state is largely absent, and a range of actors govern.

U.S. Special Forces have fought alongside Pakistani soldiers on several occasions, in the borderland areas, and the American security apparatus has been conducting frequent drone attacks in Pakistani territory — more than a hundred such attacks in 2010 alone.

Various ethnic groups control large pockets of territory in the northern borderland areas and risk losing their control over the lucrative trade in timber, jade, gemstones and, in some cases, heroin and methamphetamine.

The ethnic groups control large pockets of territory in the northern and eastern borderland areas, and, if they disarm, they risk losing control over their lucrative trade in timber, jade, gems and, in some cases, heroin and methamphetamines.

And real threats of aggression by Khartoum — including a number of bombing attacks in disputed borderland areas over the past year — have fed conspiracy theories, which in turn have justified the repression of minorities.

Although Mr. Thein Sein is a former general himself, his public appeals for an end to the army's offensive in the borderland areas have gone unheeded, leading diplomats to voice concerns about a possible rift between the military and his civilian government.