Sentence examples for opened its border from inspiring English sources

Hungary played an important part in accelerating the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe when it opened its border with Austria in 1989, allowing thousands of East Germans to escape to the West.

Egypt has also only sporadically opened its border with Gaza over the past decade.

Egypt opened its border with Gaza to some similar aid and to allow some of the wounded through.

Israel has extended Palestinian fishing rights, and Egypt has opened its border crossing for Gazans to leave the enclave.

Germany opened its border and took in the refugees from these countries, but felt a lack of support from other EU member states.

Responding to public outrage over the Israeli raid, Egypt opened its border crossing with Gaza, at Rafah, allowing passengers to flow through until further notice.

During the Hungarian uprising of 1956 it opened its borders to thousands of Hungarians.

I left Britain for America in 2003, before it opened its borders to the east.

It opened its borders, letting arms supplies trickle to Baghdad, and later giving refuge to fleeing Iraqi Baathists.

The open-air museum pays homage to Western-inspired architecture that appeared in Japan as it opened its borders to foreign trade after 200 years of isolation.

It was the first time an Eastern European nation had opened its borders, and is widely seen as the start of the fall of communism.