Sentence examples for fragile borders from inspiring English sources

Thousands of Malians have flocked to neighbouring Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso, triggering a potential refugee crisis along its fragile borders.

The last time was in 1991, when they were fired from Iraq, during the Gulf War — not from Israel's increasingly fragile borders with Lebanon and Syria, in the north, or with Gaza and Egypt, in the south and southwest.

Speak "of them and to them" so they know they "exist", alike vague socio-anthropological entities, notwithstanding a couple of thousand languages, 55 "nation states" in balkanising evolution, hundreds of fragile borders, multiple power-brokers, and an unfathomable mix of ethno-linguistic societies and competitive entities seeking survival under Africa's sun.

Needless to say, the British were outraged, and Lord Palmerston sent 11,000 fresh troops to Canada to bolster that fragile border and threaten the north.

Our nightmares now seem like premonitions, and the necessary, fragile border between the lived city and the phantasmagoric city has disintegrated as surely as the towers themselves.

"Can you imagine how many bombs we would have if Qusayr hadn't fallen [to regime control]?" he says, referring to a border town that Hizbullah helped the Syrian army take back from rebels last June.Another brewing battle could rock the fragile border towns yet further.

Both approaches play with the sense that the categories we take for granted have fragile or nonexistent borders.

Over the last two years, much has been made in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East of the four accused being members of Hezbollah, the Shia militia which holds significant sway in Lebanese affairs and, increasingly, beyond the fragile state's borders.

States are generally weak if not outright fragile; policemen and border guards lack weapons and surveillance equipment.

And also how fragile that little border is between those without and those that have an abundance?

In these photographs, though, borders are fragile, penetrable, thin as gauze.