Sentence examples for competing frontier from inspiring English sources

Rather than embark on costly campaigns of conquest, he chose to strengthen the existing empire by building additional bases, using diplomacy as well as military threats, and generally refraining from getting drawn into petty squabbles between competing frontier tyrants.

For centuries it was a fluctuating East-West frontier between competing empires, ideologies and faiths.

The competing demands of manned frontiers and strategic reserve forces had led to the division of the military into four types of troops by the early 4th century: The limitanei or riparienses patrolled the border and defended the border fortifications.

In a situation of bilateral competition, the efficiency domains of the competing options are separated by a frontier in three affine pieces.

But Frontier was allowed to seek competing bids and could end its agreement with Republic if it received a higher offer.

Additionally, the degrees of dominance of competing strategies will be analyzed by using the efficiency frontier graphs.

As noted by the WWF (2007a), the region's animal species are competing with the rapid expansion of Brazil's agricultural frontier, which focuses primarily on soy and corn.

The results suggested a strong trade-off between the competing economic and safety objectives in terms of Pareto frontiers that clearly quantified the required compromise.

Craven predicted that the London Games, which will feature a record 4,200 athletes representing 165 countries and competing in 20 sports, would take the Paralympics to a "new frontier".

Still, they might get some heavy hitters competing for this job: After all, Siri could be the next frontier in script and screenwriting.

The Amazon is the agricultural frontier and tensions are growing between ranchers and indigenous people who are competing for the land.