Sentence examples for poor border from inspiring English sources

Opening it up would let poor border towns revert from their current concentration on smuggling to more legitimate trade.

In the book Mr. Martinez holds the poor border city of Brownsville to account for some of the darker episodes of his boyhood.

A poor border guard is easier to tempt than a rich one, and a struggling business may be persuaded to launder money.

Three days into a siege by security forces, Dara'a, a poor border city, has become center stage of an uprising that has posed the greatest challenge to the Assad family's four decades in power.

Now think back to that poor border buff, stuck on the bay path on the French side, or staring out from the Calle Thalamas Labandibar on the Spanish side.

While South Ossetia is a poor border region of Georgia battered by war, Tatarstan is an economic powerhouse in the heart of Russia, boasting both oil reserves and the political stability that is catnip to investors.

Turkey is big, poor, borders on the EU and is a potential source of many migrants.

Following poor, bordering on disastrous, showings at the world championships in 2014 and 2015, they topped the medals table with five golds, one silver and three bronze at Lee Valley VeloPark in March.

She found the portions to be small and pricey, and the service to be rather poor, bordering on rude.

The roof of the world is a crowded place where one can procure sushi and prostitutes, and where the indulgences of wealthy Westerners stand in contrast to the plight of poor locals.The border guards fired on the pilgrims as they crossed the pass, minutes from the border.

When rich and poor countries border each other, the demand for workers in the former and lack of work that can support a family in the latter can exert a gravity-like pull.