Sentence examples for closing frontier from inspiring English sources

The saga of two lonely fighters trapped in the tragedy of family ties and struggling to age with dignity slides over into politics and history: in Fuller's progressive view, the closing frontier made the hired gun obsolete.

They also called for those responsible to be tried and convicted, and warned that in the event of new threats to order, they would immediately close frontiers and air traffic, suspend commerce and cut off energy supplies and other services to Ecuador.

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..."....

Spain has virtually closed the frontier.

With this in mind, the government has closed its frontier with Iraq.

"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.

In the longer term, one of the keys to ensuring that Putin does not get his "frozen conflict" is to close that frontier.

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.

The three countries battling epidemics have shut their borders with each other; Senegal and Ivory Coast have in turn closed their frontiers with all three.There is good reason to fear contagion.