Sentence examples similar to hard frontier from inspiring English sources

Despite early victories scored by Tang General Guo Ziyi (697 781), the newly recruited troops of the army at the capital were no match for An Lushan's die-hard frontier veterans, so the court fled Chang'an.

He followed with "Will Penny" (1968), another western, this one focusing on the hard-bitten frontier man of action as emotional cripple.

The theory could be fanciful, but I couldn't help thinking when I was in California of how Shakespeare's titanic dramas of kings and queens, heroes and villains, found some kind of resonance with hard-bitten frontier communities, accustomed to a life of extremes.

For instance, Mordecai Richler's rollicking Solomon Gursky Was Here (which I just read) includes a 19th-century Jewish character named Ephraim who's a macho, hard-bitten, frontier type of guy.

However, officials accept a small amount of weaponry is spirited across an almost 900 Km (550 mile) frontier hard to patrol and always prone to smuggling.

Progress is harder at the frontier.

America has made its southern frontier harder to cross, which partly explains the slowdown in immigration from Mexico.

That may be all that is now left of the $440m in assets that Bayou claimed earlier this year.In this section Aspirations and obligations Genesis A home-grown problem Bullish Baer In the garden of good and evil A new frontier Hard-landing heresy ReprintsIn July, Mr Israel told investors that he was winding up the funds and would return their money.

"It is getting harder and harder to cross the frontier.

Life on the frontier was hard.

Like us, they have abandoned the hard life of the frontier for a fast-food paradise.