Sentence examples for scale the border from inspiring English sources

Amadou, from Cameroon, had tried to scale the border fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

He says: "Recently we tried to scale the border fence at Melilla.

About 100 tried to scale the border fence there on Tuesday and at least five got in.

Hundreds of migrants scale the border fence at Melilla in September last year.

Yet on Aug. 12, several hundred immigrants managed to scale the border fences in the middle of the night.

Last week, mounting tensions on the Greek-Macedonian border seemingly came to a head when hundreds of stranded refugees attempted to scale the border fence while police fired tear gas at them.

In recent weeks, hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have scaled the border fence separating the Spanish territory of Melilla from neighbouring Morocco.

More than 200 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have broken into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla by scaling the border fence.

Last week Number 10 claimed David Cameron had secured a promise from his Spanish counterpart, Mariano Rajoy, to scale down the border controls, but the Spaniards immediately contradicted Britain's version of events.

"So that there can be a proper debate about the government's plans for the UK border, I would urge you to confirm without delay whether it is your intention to inflict cuts of this scale on the border force, and whether you think this can be achieved without compromising border security.

Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister, says talks are at an "advanced stage" with the Asian Development Bank on financing new roads to allow large-scale trade across the border.