Sterner border controls in the 1990s made it harder for Mexicans to move back and forth easily, prompting many migrants to settle and bring their families.
A stern-looking border guard tapped me on the shoulder, motioned to my husband and pointed to a separate line marked "foreigners", where visitors of both sexes were allowed to mingle.
Swift spared not the vice of rich or poor; and, disdaining to amuse the imaginations of his audience with discussion of dark points of divinity, or warm them by a flow of sentimental devotion, he rushes at once to the point of moral depravity, and upbraids them with their favourite and predominant vices in a tone of stern reproof, bordering upon reproach.
Notably, Kagame chose to make his weekend speech in Kinyarwanda, a regional language, instead of English, likely seeking to send a stern message across the border.
The two main groups are restrictionists, who want fewer legal immigrants, a tougher border and sterner treatment for illegals, and liberalisers who want to bow to economic reality and regularise the current situation, through guest-worker programmes and the like.
It was my first time to encounter those stern, no-nonsense East German border officials.
I should have listened to the fake border patrol's stern warning and not trusted the coyotes.
The Israeli government has started handing out machineguns to residents of border villages, along with stern but unenforceable warnings to use them only in self-defence.
The road led from a store just inside Quebec that sold liquor, across the border (now marked by stern-looking warning signs) south along Lake Memphremagog.
According to the first Stern's definition [ 1], Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a nosographic entity on the border between neurosis and psychosis.
