Sentence examples for frontier state from inspiring English sources

In a frontier state, her family counted as the establishment.

Where local people see a fluid frontier, state officials see firm lines on a map.

Coma dépassé was considered a "frontier state" between life and death.

By 1862, the fragile order of this frontier state was breaking down under the pressures of an unpopular draft and a capricious martial law.

Instead he became a symbol of a country still a long way from being at peace with itself, a gun-crazy frontier state beset by sickening violence.

Along with Western Australia and the Northern Territory, Queensland is commonly regarded as a resource-based frontier state with major emphasis on agricultural, mineral, and energy resources.

The relatively liberal voting laws with which Alaska and Hawaii entered the union in 1959 make them typical frontier states.

Dynamism is shifting from the older, more populous states, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, to the wide open spaces of the frontier states, Queensland and Western Australia (WA).

The long-standing enmity between the Ottomans and the Mamlūks arose from their contest to control the Turkoman frontier states north of Syria.

The aim is to reduce pressure on EU's frontier states, notably Greece and Italy, which are struggling to cope with large numbers of refugees.

With 17% of the people in eastern Germany still without jobs (twice the rate in the west), many fear a resurgence of the xenophobic nationalism recently seen in neighbouring Austria, another of the EU's "frontier states".Before coming to power 18 months ago, the Social Democrats called for a fundamental review.