Sentence examples for officials border from inspiring English sources

actors including politicians, state officials, border guards, farmers and people whose lives involve the crossing of the borders.

According to local immigration service officials, border crossings here jumped 50percentt last year, to 300,000.

His members – immigration officials, border agents, court workers – had already seen their pay lag behind inflation: now they were fighting to keep their jobs.

"This morning, the PM held a meeting with minsters, senior officials, Border Force and the National Crime Agency to discuss progress on improving security at the Channel tunnel at Coquelles and alleviating disruption in Kent," she said.

Once customs officials, border police and visa officers have learned to expect small payments, they will accept larger ones to let a shipment pass without inspection or let a person through an airport without scrutiny.

One likely factor in the rising numbers is the increasing success rate of smugglers who, after crackdowns in Mexico and the U.S. last year, appear to have arranged alternative smuggling routes and payoff relationships with Mexican officials, border analysts say.

Still, the progress has inspired an optimism in the American command that, among some officials, borders on giddiness.

But there's no official border crossing.

Official border trade has more than doubled in recent years, but it remains sluggish.

Nevertheless, this is the official border as it has appeared on most maps ever since.

It controls all official border crossings and runs several unofficial ports, solely for its own use.