Sentence examples for long frontier from inspiring English sources

Nowhere is the tension between trying to support American policies and soothe Islamic constituencies more fraught than in Pakistan, which shares a long frontier with Afghanistan.

The majority of Turks do not have vengeance in their hearts, but many are outraged by the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo – and apprehensive about the consequences for their own communities as tragedy percolates across the long frontier.

During our long frontier adolescence, a man or a woman was free to cut down trees, plow the land, hunt bear, reroute rivers and fill the skies with smoke.

Guinea's president, Lansana Conte, this week accused Liberia's government of trying to snatch Guinea's mineral wealth.Guinea's army has not been able to defend all of its long frontier; recognition of that came last week when Mr Conte sacked his defence minister.

The specter of regional instability was underscored today when Iran, which already harbors more than a million Afghans who have fled almost two decades of war, said it was bolstering its military and police forces along its long frontier with Afghanistan and closing the border to head off a new influx of refugees.

But the long frontier has been disputed in at least two places in recent years.

One of the most fundamental tenets of the EU is the principle of free movement of labour, which could cause difficulties to Austria, which has long frontiers with the applicant countries - Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and possibly after Geneva, Slovakia - which were all part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Half of the 550 mile-long frontier is already held by the Syrian Kurds.

If Isis is overstretched, so too are its opponents, particularly the Kurds who have to defend a 650-mile-long frontier with the new "caliphate" declared by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on 29 June.

Already, one border has changed beyond recognition: Turkey's 800km-long frontier with Syria.

Already, one border has changed beyond recognition: Turkey's 500-mile-long frontier with Syria.