Sentence examples for borderlands from from inspiring English sources

THE HISTORY To wrest disputed borderlands from Connecticut, New York State encouraged ostracized Quakers to settle there and become residents.

The U.S. had acquired a large swath of the borderlands from its southern neighbor two years before, so a certain haziness was inevitable.

Most of the insurgents seem to be moving in across Bamian's eastern and northeastern borderlands from the neighboring provinces of Baghlan and Parwan, especially Baghlan's Tala Wa Barfak district, officials say.

Following the war, whole new categories of inmates flooded into the camps: German P.O.W.'s, anti-Communists from the western borderlands or from the new Soviet empire in Eastern Europe.

Al-Qaida's threat no longer emanates from the caves of the borderlands, but from its symbolism that has long since metastasized to other activists of the Muslim world.

Russia's borderlands, far from being an impenetrable defensive glacis, became instead a chink in the czars' armor -- a lesson Stalin would have done well to learn after the Soviet triumph in World War II.

rumguides.com Mike has lived in Turkey since 1994 and leads Wild Frontiers' Turkish itineraries – including its eastern borderlands trip from the mountains close to Georgia to the plains near Syria.

According to information provided to this author by the Pima County Medical Examiner's office, many Guatemalans who have perished while crossing these desert borderlands originated from among the indigenous Mayan areas hit hardest by the genocide: El Quiché, Huehuetenango, Chimaltenango.

The clastic material is derived from borderlands where it is carried into the karst by sinking streams, from overlying sandstone and shale caprock, from surface soils that are washed underground through sinkholes, and from the insoluble residue of the limestone bedrock.

As long as the prowess of Sāsānian barons made the Iranian borderlands impenetrable, refugees from steppe warfare continued to be funnelled north of the Caspian into Europe.

Upstairs from Borderlands is a single-room-occupancy hotel, where a twenty-six-year-old college graduate named Ashton Di Vito lives in a single room without a kitchen; he uses a shared bathroom down the hall.