Sentence examples for closed the border for from inspiring English sources
Tensions between the two countries rose after the siege, as the authorities in Myanmar closed the border for two months and strengthened their military presence.
When the Aurora docked, its cruise-from-hell image took on different overtones: Spain, citing public health, closed the border, for the first time since the dictator Franco shut it for political reasons in 1969.
In addition, what Rafah identified in 1999 as sources of economic growth are all completely destroyed - the Gaza international airport (runways demolished, totally closed); the border for trade with Egypt (now with a giant Israeli sniper tower in the middle of the crossing); access to the ocean (completely cut off in the last two years by a checkpoint and the Gush Katif settlement).
Israel had closed the borders for Passover, but some West Bank Christians were allowed to cross for Easter celebrations.
Political tension and outbreaks of violence often led Israeli authorities to close the border for extended periods, putting many Palestinians out of work.
Colonel Shammari said the Americans in Al Qaim sometimes closed the border crossing for days or even weeks at a time, and once for a month starting April 17 as they tried to stamp out the insurgency raging around the city.
In 2008, the Pakistanis closed the border crossing for several days after American aircraft bombed a Pakistani paramilitary post in Mohmand, another tribal area.
Well, if we consider the interrelationship between the Turkish and the Syrian populations perhaps for centuries, there can be no argument for closing the borders for Syrians (MFA interview 2, Ankara, February 2014).
First, we should not close the borders for both humanitarian and strategic reasoning.
Azerbaijan uses its oil wealth for an arms buildup, and its ally Turkey has closed the border with Armenia for more than a decade.
I'm not just some little old sheriff!" He told a complicated story about a Nixon-era anti-narcotics program called Operation Intercept, which he said he ran with G. Gordon Liddy, and which nearly closed the border with Mexico for ten days in 1969.
