The gains in Rhode Island and Maine were attributed, in part, to the expanding borders of the Boston suburbs.
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.
"New York in Store" shows some of the places your MetroCard can take you, once you accept the city's expanding borders.
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.
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.
From a blood-soaked continent, it forged a new era of peace, prosperity, open societies, and the triumph of "soft power" within its expanding borders.
Such moves were far more common occurrences in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the country's expanding borders led many politicians westward along with their constituencies.
As it relates to our nation, empire must be lifted beyond the mere notion of sovereign and expanding borders, but instead understood as a system that controls psychologies and influences people's actions.
One is that the federal government hasn't enforced immigration laws, even though it has greatly expanded border security in the last decade and the Obama administration is deporting immigrants at a record clip.
And just two months ago, his beloved Utah – under his Republican successor, Governor Gary Herbert – passed a bill that includes a state guest worker programme and expanded border and workplace enforcement measures, with no Arizona-style crackdown.
