Sentence examples for off the frontier from inspiring English sources

When Morocco protested to France over Lyautey's encroachments on Moroccan territory in order to round off the frontier, Jonnart protected him, and Lyautey reduced the frontier tribes to obedience.

YPG fighters have already captured much of northeast Syria near the Turkish border, but their advance west of the Euphrates river to close off the frontier once and for all was limited by strong opposition from Turkey, which considers the YPG its enemies.

The more America seals off the frontier, the more migrants are forced into a race with drug "mules" for the remaining gaps.

India said on Tuesday it would firmly defend its 3,500-km 3,500-km 2,200-mile 2,200-mile after domestic media reported a new face-off on the frontier.

The episode featured alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan and Rory Williams Arthur Darvillll) visiting the Wild West, where they encounter a town which is cut off from the rest of the frontier until they hand over Kahler-Jex, an alien doctor, to a cyborg called the Gunslinger.

He was born in the midwest, in Omaha, Nebraska - on the great Missouri river, one of the frontier trail starting-off points in the 1830s - and the same city where Fred Astaire, Montgomery Clift and Marlon himself were born.

She was particularly put off by the frontier stoicism, which she described as "near-Fascist admiration for a simplified physical endurance of pain".

The group sets off across the frontier to the port town of Saith to continue their journey.

Though most of it had been purchased during the past 40 years or so -- there is no ancient rocking chair that channels a great great great grandmother who fended off wild Indians on the frontier -- I was certain our children would long for my French writing desk or that charming bamboo etagere.

"By disabling our moment-by-moment memory, which is ever pulling us off the astounding frontier of the present and throwing us back onto the mapped byways of the past, the cannabinoids open a space for something nearer to direct experience," he writes.

Call it the "closing of the frontier".