Sentence examples for size of the border from inspiring English sources

He also noted that President Bush's proposed 2008 budget called for doubling the size of the border patrol, to more than eighteen thousand agents, before he left office.

Increased enforcement, including a recent doubling of the size of the border patrol, has also tempered fears about an unlimited flow of illegal immigration.

The $40 billion Corker-Hoeven proposal that received Senate approval on Monday includes an estimated $25 billion for nearly doubling the size of the border patrol force, and also calls for a $3.2 billion high-tech surveillance plan.

Which brings us to... CONTROLLING THE BORDERS The $46.3 billion earmarked to double the size of the border patrol, raise fences and install monitoring technology on our Southern flank is a nice stimulus package for border states and a windfall for a few favored technology companies, but it is mostly for show.

To avoid the hot region problem, which may be observed in the border lines and the central cells, one solution is to adjust the size of the border lines and shape of the central region according to the size of the network and the network traffic.

Adjust the position and size of the border graphic.

In looking at the figures, I suspect even slight changes to the shape and size of the borders would change the direction quite a lot.

Tracheids were first determined in macerated wood and then identified on a cross-section on the basis of the number of pits and size of the pit border (both resembling that of vessel pits) and cell size (IAWA Committee 1989; Sano et al. 2011).

Pay special attention to the details, like the size of the text, the borders around buttons, and the spacing between everything; these little details are often the different between great design and poor design.

These PDE predict that the stationary density ratio between the 2D (centre) and 1D (border) environment only depends on the thigmotactic component, not on the size of the centre or border areas.

Another field, of unknown size, straddles the border with Iran in an area called Chya Surkh.