Sentence examples for opened its borders from inspiring English sources

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.

"London has flourished not because it has sorted out its transport, or its city management, but because it opened its borders," argues Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics.

The report estimates that about half of the 1.5 million eastern European workers who have come to the UK since it opened its borders to an expanded EU in 2004 have returned home, while most of the remainder have found themselves in unskilled occupations.

Iraq pays a bounty of $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers and $10,000 to the families of other Palestinian intifada casualties.He has raised a special force, the al-Quds army, to liberate Jerusalem, and says it would march on the holy city at once if only some other Arab country opened its borders to let it through.

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

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.

Not until the Hungarian government opened its border with Austria in May 1989 did the whole rotten edifice collapse and, to general astonishment, one Germany replace two.

Turkey eventually relented and opened its border with Syria, allowing aid and peshmerga fighters from Iraqi Kurdistan to reach the battle.

The communist era lasted from 1947 to 1989, when Hungary opened its border with Austria and thereby helped precipitate the collapse of the Soviet bloc.