Sentence examples for frontier point from inspiring English sources

Locals on the Burmese frontier point to fruit trees that now grow where opium used to, but the quantity of drugs seized has been rising.

At Chaman, a frontier point near Kandahar, Pakistan state television reported 20,000 people had beaten the border closing and pressed into Pakistan within 24 hours.

When other component criteria are included in the objective function, such as progeny inbreeding, the frontier point is generally not reached.

As Richard Slotkin, author of an influential trilogy on the myth of the American frontier, points out, the vigilante label is wondrously malleable.

The contact wire height and stagger were measured by determining the frontier points of the abrasion surface of the contact wire using edge detection algorithms.

Jonny Bealby, the founder of adventure tour operator Wild Frontiers, points to areas where visitors have been snapping up tours.

What had once been a frontier lookout point for Israeli visitors was closed off with coils of barbed wire.

Over the past few years, it has been transformed from a gritty frontier crossing point to a vibrant multicultural hub.

Holland returned two weeks later with four possible targets—suspected Islamic-fundamentalist redoubts in Somalia, Mauritania, the Philippines, and the Triple Frontier, the point where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet.

Ciudad del Este is at the heart of the zone known as the Triple Frontier, the point where Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet, which has served for nearly thirty years as a hospitable base of operations for smugglers, counterfeiters, and tax dodgers.

The electronic structure of different types of adsorbed oxygen species on a vanadyl pyrophosphate surface is analyzed from a frontier orbital point of view and used in a discussion of the oxidation of 1,3-butadiene to adsorbed 2,5-dihydrofuran.