It helps demarcate life's most important border: here's where you end and I begin.
The lightning-fast success of the YPG's offensive against Tal Abyad, IS's most important border crossing with Turkey, that started in May, tarnished the image of the ever-expanding caliphate that IS propaganda is at pains to disseminate.
And it would be armed with lasers, garlanded with wise and kindly dragons and inscribed with words of such surpassing wisdom that anyone who travels to the wall wouldn't need to cross the border of a nation to find opportunity waiting -- they'd instead come away armed with the knowledge necessary to cross the most important border of all: the border to personal greatness.
In their mounting alarm, the government has built 50 miles of razor-wire fence along the Turkish border, which the executive director of Frontex, the European Union's border agency, has called "the most important land border in the EU".
There is, for instance, a sequence in which the ghost of his late wife leads Uncle Boonmee, who is dying of kidney disease, into a cave; the passage from life to death and, most important, the infinitesimal border between them is expanded into space and time, conjuring, with the merest of physical actions and gestures, a sense of vast metaphysical striving.
Now we are spending almost $4 billion a month there that could be spent here on roads, schools, technology, local police and, most important, protecting our borders and coasts.
In addition, the most important mountain chains bordering these glacial refugia limited areal re-expansion towards Central and northern Europe during the interglacial periods.
Diplomats said that the most important element of the border question for Mr. Assad is that he be able to say that he got the Israelis to withdraw to the 1967 line, when the Golan belonged to Syria; for Mr. Barak, the most important element is that he be able to say that he won enough security guarantees to protect Israel, diplomats said.
Nonetheless, the senior official in the homeland security office said that reaching agreement quickly with the Canadians on relaxing border truck inspections was one of the most important items in negotiations over border control.
Example Four: The President sponsors a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization, an international annual gathering of the most important twenty one nations bordering the Pacific Ocean.
Most important, both sides of the border are dominated by the Haqqani group, whose leaders are from Khost, and Paktia's powerful Zadran tribe.
