Sentence examples for security buildup from inspiring English sources

And the federal security buildup — symbolized by an 18-foot, rust-colored fence that runs along city streets and through backyards, part of a 650-mile, $2.8 billion border wall — was regarded around town as a threatening imposition.

The agents along the border are the most important part of America's security buildup, rather than the new toys or technology, from Predator drones to geospatial intelligence systems to underground motion sensors.

Partly as a result of increased traffic after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect and because of a post-9/11 security buildup, the time it takes to cross into Laredo from Mexico is typically several hours.

Some Dems in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and some Dems in border districts also are cool to the idea, because they object to the Senate bill's huge border security buildup.

It demonstrates that Republican primary voters are hostile up front to citizenship, but they recognize a need to fix the system and accept citizenship as part of a broader package of reforms that includes a border security buildup, back taxes, fines, and learning English.

But most of all the party has to do more to level with voters and tell them that Social Security, Medicare, education and other domestic priorities -- not to mention the defense and homeland security buildup -- cannot be paid for with borrowed money.

"This whole nontransparent military-security buildup has created a lot of pressure on — or opportunities for — a variety of politicians and policy makers to misbehave," says Daron Acemoglu, a development economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gen. Felix L. Sparks, the Guard commander, said the buildup included security mea sures but no additional troops and had been recommended by the Pentagon.

In addition, there were numerous security threats in the buildup to the Games, as well as political unrest in nearby Ukraine, and the June 2013 passage of an antihomosexuality bill in the Russian parliament raised the possibility of protests derailing the Olympics.

Or maybe Trump was placing China on notice that unless he obtained more balanced trade and jobs, the US would deem all aspects of the bilateral relationship – including regional security, China's military buildup and cooperation over the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons programme – up for review.

With all the buildup and security, you'd think the National Congress was a cross between the Olympics and a G8 summit.