Sentence examples for frontier policies from inspiring English sources

But Curzon's frontier policies remain controversial at best.

Just at that period the frontier policies of the emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712 756) were providing opportunities for men such as An Lushan, his cousin An Sishun, and other soldiers of non-Chinese origin to serve in the Chinese armies.

But that has recently become impossible as the Balkan countries recently shut their borders or tightened frontier policies to people without valid travel documents.

Equal parts of burlesque and tragedy, this reimagining of Thomas Berger's picaresque novel not only depicted American frontier policy as brutal and genocidal but also acted as a parable of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Potgieter was a well-to-do sheep farmer from the Tarka district of eastern Cape Colony before the vacillating frontier policy of the British caused him to opt for leaving the colony.

Emphasizing the poets' loneliness and longing for home while hinting at the pointlessness of their posts, these frontier verses are characterized by imagery of desolate landscapes, including the ruins of the now-neglected Great Wall — a direct product of Tang's frontier policy.

It is also possible that their construction had little to do with Roman frontier policy and was simply the importation of a new style by southern elites or it may have been a response by such elites to the growing threat of Rome prior to the invasion and an attempt to ally themselves, actually or symbolically, with the free north.

Aboriginal participation in a number of major revolts during the Qing era, including the Taokas-led Ta-Chia-hsi revolt of 1731 1732, ensured the Plains tribes would remain an important factor in crafting Qing frontier policy until the end of Qing rule in 1895.

Although the steam engine and other technological advances were another generation away from taking hold in the United States, Jefferson forever shaped his frontier American policies with an eye perennially cast back across the water.

In the 19th century Tibet was a buffer between Russian imperial expansion and India's frontier defense policy.

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, the dowry frequently served not only to enhance the desirability of a woman for marriage but also to build the power and wealth of great families and even to determine the frontiers and policies of states.