Sentence examples for call a frontier from inspiring English sources

But it is what investors call a frontier market - a riskier place to do business than emerging economies, which are developing countries with demonstrated growth potential.

Mark Twain's Roughing It (1872) may be called a frontier classic.

As BP struggled last week to stanch the flow of spewing oil at the Deepwater Horizon rig, it has become clear that the pressure to dig deeper and faster from what Mr. Eyton then called a "frontier province" of oil exploration has in some ways outpaced the knowledge about how to do that safely.

But Locarno, 66 years old this year, is distinctive mainly for being what its new artistic director, Carlo Chatrian, calls "a frontier festival" — one that draws both from the margins and the cutting edge, keeping faith that audiences will respond not just to the tried-and-true but also to the prospect of discovery.

It is one of a number of loans that N.Y.U. has made to executives and star professors for expensive vacation homes in areas like East Hampton, Fire Island and Litchfield County, Conn., in what educational experts call a bold new frontier for lavish university compensation.

People romanticize the state's frontier days, sure, and we still have the remnants of an epic natural landscape that we're busily destroying, but with all the sprawl and the pavement it'd stretch the truth past the breaking point to call it a frontier now.

June 4, 1932 Auckland, New Zealand October 10, 2004 Taumarunui, New Zealand Maurice Shadbolt, in full Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt (born June 4, 1932, Auckland, New Zealand died October 10, 2004, Taumarunui), New Zealand author of novels and short stories set in his native land, which he called "a last frontier for the human race, and a paradise lost".

Mr Sunstein calls it a "frontiers question".

The company has a strong balance sheet, Mr. Hathaway said, and assets in West Africa, which he called an "exciting exploration frontier".

As a proof of concept, the company launched its own game, called Mars Frontier, a real-time strategy game on Facebook.

Some investors and deal-makers call them "frontier" markets, but there are plenty of other names for these nations.