Sentence examples for spanning the border from inspiring English sources

Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps, spanning the border between Italy and France.

But there have been several reports of gun battles spanning the border there and elsewhere.

There is also a US version of the show focused on on the Mexican border, and the Guardian understands that the production company behind the concept, Filmlance, is in discussions over a version spanning the border between Russia and Estonia.

He said there had been intelligence reports of the militants moving groups of girls to Marte – a known training camp – and to the Gwoza hills, a range of caves and valleys spanning the border with Cameroon.

For the probes spanning the border of the annotation units, their corresponding targets only partially matched the probes, rendering those probes equivalent to the non-perfect matches.

Brain slices were immunostained with anti-BrdU antibody and BrdU-positive (BrdU+) cells were quantified in the SGZ (defined as the region spanning the border of granule cell layer and hilus with two cell layers into the granule cell layer and hilus) of the entire rostro-caudal extent of the hippocampus.

We conclude that it is a priority that international collaboration secures the Persian leopard's conservation in the wider landscape spanning the borders of Caucasian countries.

Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Birmingham and Black Country urban areas were coalescing into a single extensive conurbation spanning the borders of three counties: Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

For the purpose of this study, a new CDF file, "AtTA.cdf", was constructed based on the following criteria: 1) only the perfect match (PM) probes with a unique match position in the genome were considered; 2) the probes spanning the borders of annotation units were removed; and 3) the annotation units represented by a single probe were not considered.

Its registration – Co Monaghan in the Republic – indicated that the campaign against the clinic spanned the border as well as the north's divide.

The area around Brocken, the highest point of the Harz mountains (3,747 feet [1,142 metres]), is part of Harz National Park, which spans the border with Lower Saxony.