Sentence examples for notional border from inspiring English sources
The Kurdish administered areas have seen staggering numbers cross their notional border since the original Isis onslaught two months ago.
The notional border, the Northern Limit line, is not recognised by North Korea, which is why Pyongyang feels justified launching attacks on what it views as provocations here.
Cynthia, a 19-year-old student at Garissa's teacher training college on the edge of town, spoke with the studied politeness that I've encountered repeatedly in the past few days in this isolated town, on the hot, dry plains that stretch towards and over the seemingly notional border that separates Kenya from Somalia.
In some ways, the border feels more like the notional borders of the European Union than a divide between the developed and developing worlds.
It will take years of effort, containment, and luck to stabilize Iraq and Syria — and to prevent catastrophic terrorism from spreading beyond their increasingly notional borders.
It will take years of effort, containment, and luck to stabilize Iraq and Syria and to prevent catastrophic terrorism from spreading beyond their increasingly notional borders.
There is no notional, cross-border limit to what people will pay for their television and allied provisions.
Using alliances where he could, bartering with European and Mughal interests, the young leader began by driving out invaders and re-establishing his notional borders.
Here, where the northern end of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley opens to the Syrian plain, the border has always been notional.
As in Europe, borders were drawn all over the Fertile Crescent following the First World War, and many of those borders have now become notional abstractions as millions of refugees flee conflict zones in Mosul, Aleppo, Homs, and Raqqa.
But Kerry's insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime must abandon power means that a Sunni government would take over Syria; and his wish to disarm Shia Iran – however notional its nuclear threat may be – would ensure that Sunni military power would dominate the Middle East from the Afghan border to the Mediterranean.
