Sentence examples for frontier guard from inspiring English sources
In this way cultivated land could support an effective frontier guard against the steppe for the first time since the cavalry revolution had tipped the balance so sharply in favour of steppe dwellers.
In the next century, however, the collapse of the Persian frontier guard in Central Asia and the consolidation of a new steppe empire based in Mongolia combined to provoke large-scale displacements of peoples westward along the steppe and southward from the steppe onto cultivated ground.
SEOUL, South Korea South Koreaea placed more soldiers at frontier guard posts and told its fishermen to refrain from sailing near North Korean waters on Sunday, a day after the North Korean military declared an "all-out confrontational posture" against the South and threatened a naval clash.
In 1740, the term was applied to frontier guard duty infantry deployed in the Croatian Military Frontier (Banal Frontier), specifically its Karlovac and Varaždin Generalcies.
A distinction between frontier guard troops and more mobile reserve forces had emerged with the use of certain troops to permanently man frontiers such as Hadrian's Wall in Britannia in the 2nd century AD.
Aged 13, she and her mother braved the frontier guards and fled to China.
Two-thirds of the matériel went to the Czech military, which includes ground and air forces and frontier guards.
Administration was consolidated by the settlement, probably as frontier guards, of the Székely (Szeklers, a people akin to the Magyars) and the Saxons (Germans).
Others, such as the Soviet Union, exclude defense-related research and development, frontier guards, and paramilitary reserves, thereby reducing the nominal defense expenditure by up to 30 percent.
Zalambessa, a small town on the Ethiopian side of the frontier, guards the most direct route to Eritrea's capital, Asmara, about 100km (60 miles) away.
At this very moment, said the A.I.O., our man was creeping over the border with the aid of sympathetic frontier guards.
