Even in trading one temporary harbor for another, the refugees are better off than those stuck outside the checkpoint perimeter, closer to the front lines, who find temporary shelter in abandoned buildings or just stay on the streets.
Police eventually established a perimeter and closed in on the unruly demonstrators, handcuffing several people in the street.
The war at Europe's perimeter has been closing in for years now, and the refugee crisis has put its open-borders policy under nearly fatal pressure.
He, the dog Cairo, and four SEALs were responsible for closing off the perimeter of the house while James and six other SEALs — the contingent that was supposed to have dropped onto the roof — moved inside.
The perimeter of complete independence kept closing in.
New buildings were constructed that were attached to the castle walls, completely closing off the perimeter and making direct access impossible.
A single, three-by-five-foot panel, a sample for the public to see, was mounted on a pole near the perimeter fence, close to an artist's painted rendering of the finished museum.
The vision they have sketched out, the dream which they have putting before the local council, envisions eight new homes at the top of the land, running along the perimeter hedge closest to the village behind them, and looking across the valley down the slope of the land.
I could instantly teleport from the center of the stage right beside Beck to the front of the crowd to the outer perimeter with close-ups of the backing bands.
If physical obstacles had blocked ABB from transporting a vehicle into the area, he would have had five main choices of action: (1) abandon the attack entirely, (2) leave the vehicle at the perimeter as close as possible to the government building, (3) attack another target, (4) leave a (smaller) person-borne explosive inside the area, or (5) choose another attack mode.
