Sentence examples for frontier position from inspiring English sources

The town's potential as a port has been limited by its frontier position, however, and by the damage to the Danube navigation channel in World War II.

The "Ebro Frontier" position has been that it lasted for about five millennia and disappeared no later than ca.35 ka cal BP, as implied by (1) the southwest Iberian sites with diagnostic Aurignacian II and III IV assemblages and (2) the fossil localities spreading from Romania to France that directly associate these younger stages of the Aurignacian with modern humans [4] [6], [41] [44].

The Franco-Bavarian army camped at Ulm were numerically inferior to the Allies, and a large part of the Elector's troops were scattered about garrisons in his territories as far as Munich and the Tyrolese frontier, but his position was far from desperate: if he could hold out for a month, Tallard would arrive from the Rhine with French reinforcements.

Although it provides a fine showcase for the craggily compelling Mr. Rea, "Kicking a Dead Horse" is a disappointingly arid lament for America's lost ideals and despoiled frontiers, a blunt position paper from a playwright whose best writing is rich in mystery and oblique but potent imagery.

The northern part of the frontier reverted to its position before Otto's trustees, Hermann Billung and Gero, had begun their wars.

The most efficient production technology of such a composite production process can be described by means of the production possibility frontier, while the actual position of a firm − in terms of its realized efficiency or relative use of input factors to achieve a certain output (or a set of outputs) − can be represented by a point in either the input space or the output space.

On departing for Aragon he retained control of the Granadine frontier and of the positions held in Castile by his sons.

In the 12th century the town became important as a fortress settlement because of its key position in the frontier defenses guarding the east coast route from Scotland.

The 2012 appointment of Nelson, long and correctly viewed as a progressive on Indigenous issues, brought false hope that the memorial would change its position on depicting frontier violence.

On Sunday, a mortar shell crashed in from Syria, prompting Israel to respond with what its military described as "a warning shot" at a Syrian position across the frontier for the first time in 39 years.

Located on the west side of the mound, it was built as the feudal castle of the Trencavel family before becoming the property of the king and an important defensive position along the frontier with Aragon.