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".
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.
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.
It's almost twice the length of Manhattan (13 miles) and enough distance to cross a couple of national borders in Europe. .
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.
This protein is vital for the mechanical coupling of sarcomeric borders (z-bands) to the intermediate filament protein desmin and, via this link, for the coupling between myofibrils and the whole dystrophin/glycoprotein complex embedded in the plasma membrane (Konieczny et al., 2008).
There are a couple of encounters that border on creepy -- of the "ohmigod, is that car following me?" variety.
