Sentence examples for porous frontier from inspiring English sources

A walk in sapping heat across the porous frontier brought us to the river.

But our initial goals — dethroning the Taliban and disrupting Al Qaeda — have been as thoroughly accomplished as is possible given the porous frontier that Afghanistan shares with Pakistan.

Yet, the two places share a porous frontier that enables northerners armed with strong British pounds to head south to hunt for bargains.

But along this notoriously porous frontier, continually crisscrossed by Bedouin smugglers, military officials say it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between criminals, refugees, terrorists, friends or foes.

A senior American defense official said there was only "a 50-50 chance" that Mr. bin Laden was still in Afghanistan and had not fled across the porous frontier to Pakistan.

The region's strategic value is twofold: it links Damascus with the Mediterranean coastal enclave that is the heartland of Assad's Alawite sect; and rebels smuggle weapons and supplies from Lebanon across the porous frontier to opposition fighters in Syria.

By 2003, Belmokhtar had relocated to northern Mali, shifting easily across the porous frontiers and great tracts of sand, gravel and craggy mountains of the Sahara.

27 January (Allen Lane) The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold How do you invent the travelogue in an age of porous frontiers and uneasy globalisation?

The troop mobilization sends a clear message ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which is scheduled to take place here in June, that Brazil is taking steps to assert greater control over its porous frontiers in the Amazon.

They are stationed just a few hundred yards from an ostensible enemy toward whom they feel little animosity, in a place where the border itself is unclear, while undertaking what has turned out to be among the war's most challenging assignments: training the Iraqi police to patrol their own porous frontiers before the American military withdrawal next year.

It is unclear how he arrived in Senegal, which officially closed its border with Guinea a week ago — highlighting the difficulties of containing the epidemic in a region with porous frontiers and weak infrastructure.