Sentence examples for served as a border from inspiring English sources

"In those days everything we heard was, 'We are good; America is bad,' " said one merchant, who gave the name Rustam and said he had served as a border guard in East Germany from 1972 to 1974.

BERLIN — A 92-year-old man who served as a border guard in Adolf Hitler's elite Waffen-SS troops went on trial on Monday on charges that he shot and killed a Dutch resistance fighter in the final months of World War II.

A pile of trash at each exit served as a border.

He had been serving as a border guard commander, one of many opposition fighters to receive government jobs as part of a peace deal that ended the civil war in 1997.

Task Force 52 consisted of the 2nd Battalion, 52nd Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment; both units had been transferred from the ARVN 18th Infantry Division in late March to serve as a border screen for General Hưng's forces.

They serve as a border and will be on all sides of each block.

True, there were German soldiers watching their every move, but they stayed in a forward part of the train car, separated by a line of chalk drawn on the floor, which served as an international border between "Russia and Germanyny," two nations that were technically at war and could not speak to each other.

As a young man, he served as a German Federal Border Guard (1969 1971), a period he later called the most boring time of his life.

Mark Jenkins of National Public Radio stated that it featured "subtle performances by its striking stars" and served as a parable about border issues.

To counter powerful neighbors such as the Kingdom of Dali (934 1253), the Song made alliances with tribal groups in southwest China which served as a protective buffer between their borders and Dali's.

In this study, the hippocampal complex served as a convenient brain structure the borders of which are clearly defined in Nissl-stained sections.