Sentence examples for shut the border from inspiring English sources

People were starving, but Franco wasn't too bothered about that and shut the border anyway, cutting off phone lines too.

Thousands cheer rival guards in silly hats who strut with mock aggression, lower their flags and slam shut the border gates.

"Even if you shut the border tomorrow, what are you going to do about the ones that are here?" he said.

Since Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then as head of the army, seized power from the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013, Egypt has banned Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, from carrying out activities and shut the border crossing with Gaza.

Appearing at a veterans' hall in Nashua this week, Brown called for President Obama to shut the border with Mexico and to issue clearer guidelines on Ebola.

Socialist President Nicolas Maduro shut the border last year in an effort to crack down on smuggling of subsidized products.

The whole problem with Scandinavia is that these countries can only really work if you shut the borders.

We have shut the borders now, so I don't know if there's that much to be proud about".

He proposes to shut the borders to new immigrants for 45 days, to find out who's here and what they're up to.

But that is not the consensus of the vast majority … who don't say either [that we should] shut the borders.

This is because although Israel and Egypt have shut the borders for the past three years in an effort to squeeze Hamas, Israel rations aid daily, allowing in about 100 trucks of food and medicine.