Sentence examples for violent border from inspiring English sources

The rivalry transcends football, of course; violent border clashes plagued free-state Kansas and slave-state Missouri in the 1850s and '60s.

Omar Pimentel, the chief of police of the violent border city of Nuevo Laredo, has resigned after nine months on the job, citing personal reasons.

The most violent border dispute in the region, according to Mr. Collier, involved Connecticut's claim to northern Pennsylvania from 1768 to 1786.

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Angels are not a common sight here in Mexico's most violent border city, where the public cemetery is putrid and overflowing, and where a handful of churches worship the skeletal saint of death, Santa Muerte.

United States consular officials said Thursday that both university students killed in Ciudad Juárez this week were American citizens, bringing the number of Americans killed in the violent border city to six in as many days.

MEXICO CITY — More than a dozen gunmen sealed off a street in the violent border city of Ciudad Juárez and opened fire on a house where high school students were having a party, killing 13 people, officials said Sunday.

Machias Seal Island and nearby North Rock are the only pieces of land that the two countries both claim after more than 230 years of vigorous and sometimes violent border-making between them.

Extracted from Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones, published by Verso £16.99.

Flex is a more narrative form than break dancing, and the narratives are frequently bleak and violent, bordering on masochistic.

On the drama front, TNT's "Animal Kingdom" really aimed for a "Diet 'Sons Of Anarchy'" vibe and mostly hit it — it's physically and emotionally violent, bordering on grotesque.

Reece Jones, associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of the recent book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, isn't so sure.