Sentence examples for its borderland from inspiring English sources

The name of this period is derived from work done by Scottish geologist Roderick I. Murchison, who in 1835 named a sequence of rocks in Wales and its borderland with England in honour of a native people called the Silures.

Rather than flagging the simultaneous blending of conflicting cultural claims to form a subject position that is constituted by its borderland status, Butler deploys the notion of "psychic excess" and points to the re-significations of performance (as within a historical chain) in ways that subvert a stable subject position altogether.

Beijing has one eye on the larger strategic picture, which includes its understandable fear of discord among its own borderland populations – there are a million ethnic Koreans living in the region that borders North Korea, one of a multitude of ethnicities living all across the People's Republic.

According to Chinese accounts, the Wusun nomads may have furthered contacts between Central Asian nomads and Han China, at the time expanding westward and in need of horses in its campaign against borderland rivals.

ITS very name means "borderland".

The play's real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado.

He is making Ukraine into the borderland it had long sought to avoid.

They walked up to Houston Street to catch a taxi to Arwen's offices, in the meatpacking district, a neighborhood that often serves as a cautionary tale — its swift transformation from quasi-industrial borderland to high-end night-life district is an example of how quickly a place can be rendered unrecognizable.

So the borderland is a country in its own right, which belongs to both the US and Mexico, yet neither.

To the outsider it may look like a smelly bolthole of a cesspit, but actually the region has been a melting pot of diverse cultures, with generations of settlers, traders and conquerors attracted to its vast expanses of lush crop fields, borderland hills and the countless rivers which form the world's largest delta.

American film has always existed on the borderland of art and trash, and it has its geniuses today just as in the days when expectant crowds filed reverently into the Egyptian to worship the flickering gods of light.