Sentence examples for closed the frontier from inspiring English sources

Spain has virtually closed the frontier.

"This is the worst crisis since Spain closed the frontier [in 1969].

Immediately after the uprising the Iraqi authorities closed the frontier with Iran and all transportation between the two countries ceased.

Venezuela and Colombia to Reopen Border Venezuela and Colombia have agreed to reopen border crossings, a year after Venezuela closed the frontier in a dispute over smuggling.

The problem on the Costa Rican/Nicaraguan border began last Sunday when the Nicaraguan army pushed back a group of about 800 Cubans and then closed the frontier to Cubans in general.

Methods of compulsion against recalcitrant states would include severe measures, such as "blockading and closing the frontiers of that power to commerce or intercourse with any part of the world and to use any force that may be necessary..."....

In 1890 the United States Census Bureau formally closed the American frontier, ending the system under which land in the Western territories had been sold cheaply to pioneers.

Re "Do the Voters Really Hate Sprawl?" (Op-Ed, March 3), by D. J. Waldie: Although Los Angeles' suburban frontier is closed, the good news is that the city is opening a new frontier downtown.

Developed countries, which are at or close to the frontier, must innovate to grow and so are slower.

YPG fighters have already captured much of northeast Syria near the Turkish border, but their advance west of the Euphrates river to close off the frontier once and for all was limited by strong opposition from Turkey, which considers the YPG its enemies.

In Peshawar, a Pushtun town close to the frontier, about 40% of shops were closed.