Sentence examples for frontier defence from inspiring English sources

The plans for a European Border and Coast Guard would nearly treble EU spending on frontier defence, and replace Frontex, the EU agency with limited powers to intervene in crises.

Concerned that the Balkan route is a weak link into Europe, Austria has mobilised aspiring EU members including Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo into a Balkan frontier defence project to fortify the refugee entry points of the "Balkan corridor".

Much of his time in Gaul was devoted to this task; the Spanish campaigns had for their chief motive the safeguarding of the Spanish mines, and the expedition against the Salassi was probably as much an attempt to control the gold production of their Alpine valleys as a matter of frontier defence.

In addition to considerations of frontier defence, the Gansu Corridor also formed an important part of the Silk Road trade route.

As Northern Wei became more economically dependent on agriculture, the Xianbei emperors made a conscious decision to adopt Chinese customs, including passive methods of frontier defence.

Militarily it would put the Allied rear at right angles to the French frontier defences; while for the British, their communications located at the Bay of Biscay ports, would be parallel to their front.

After the Communist victory over the Nationalists in 1949, some 100,000 defeated soldiers were put to work clearing land, in something like a kibbutz crossed with a frontier-defence force.

The agency sees itself as the nation's first line of defence, frontier sentinels on perpetual guard.

Conclusively, the present study indicated that the induced innate immunity comprise the basal defence frontier of O. meyeriana against Xoo infection.

The plant innate immune (MTI and ETI) may comprise the basal defence frontier, and then activates the R gene expression, which in turn induces HR and thickening of xylem cell wall to restrict spreading of the bacterial cells in the leaf xylem tissue of O. meyeriana.

Lord Denning's subsequent racy report gave an extraordinary backstairs view of the murky frontiers between Number 10, defence and intelligence.