Sentence examples for couple of border from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Annan brushed aside Lebanese objections, saying there were only a couple of border violations by Israel and they would be cleared up swiftly.

Hence the words of a couple of border patrolmen, ripe with condescension, as a handful of illegal immigrants elude them: **{:.break one} ** "How many got away?" "Three".

Like many former colonies, it has made fitful progress as an independent nation: its recent history contains a failed attempt at revolutionary socialism, an abortive merger with Senegal, a couple of border wars, three coups, and one long military dictatorship.

Barragán and Ruanova were both born and raised in the city and describe themselves as a couple of "border rats": fully bilingual, as comfortable with the minutiae of Mexican culture as they are with that of the U.S.

Tin in hand, I crossed a couple of borders from Poland, finding myself in the popular French restaurant Pret a Manger.

This was not just about a couple of obscure border enclaves, nor even, really, about Georgia.

On the Mexican side of the Santa Teresa border crossing, just outside El Paso, we hopped into a white van that was waiting for us and drove right past a couple of disinterested border guards.

If the two sides can reach agreement on Siachen, they could probably settle a couple of smaller border disputes as well.It would help if India could make up its mind about General Musharraf.

It's almost twice the length of Manhattan (13 miles) and enough distance to cross a couple of national borders in Europe. .

There are a couple of encounters that border on creepy -- of the "ohmigod, is that car following me?" variety.

In contrast, in a 3D architecture (ventricular wall) the coupling of cardiomyocytes bordering infarct area might counterbalance this depolarizing effect.