The gains in Rhode Island and Maine were attributed, in part, to the expanding borders of the Boston suburbs.
Whether as part of the West Bank or inside Israel's expanded borders, Har Homa remains a settlement.
Jewish life was restored where it had been extinguished, and the expanding borders of a post-national Europe offered new opportunities to Jews scattered across borders.
"Ultimately all these settlements — their presence, their expansion, their expanded borders and so on — they're all illegal, and we don't recognize their legitimacy," she said.
"New York in Store" shows some of the places your MetroCard can take you, once you accept the city's expanding borders.
Yigal Allon and the swashbuckling Moshe Dayan also supported the notion of a Greater Israel, with expanded borders and a stronger, more secure future.
But Nicholas' overconfidence in Crimea in part led to the Crimean war with Britain and France, whose leaders sought to stop Russia's expanding borders and to slow its influence in the Middle East.
With expanded territory, there was no way Israel could allow Palestinians to return and still be "Jewish and democratic". The United Nations did not give a mandate for expanded borders, ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion.
Kurdish forces have abandoned lands they had controlled since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, allowing Iraqi troops to move into disputed areas that had been central to hopes for an independent Kurdistan with expanded borders.
Any fundamentalist pan-Islamic movement, even a Shiite-inspired one, must embrace the fact that the Prophet, and later his Caliphs, sought to build empires with temporary but expanding borders, not nations with fixed borders and identities.
