Sentence examples for vulnerable borders from inspiring English sources

It is a smugglers' hub into Europe - one of the continent's most vulnerable borders.

It shares long, vulnerable borders with Iraq and Syria, there is some recruitment of militants on its territory and it has large commercial interests in the region, which it fears could be targeted.

Barbarian war bands increasingly began to penetrate the Empire's vulnerable borders, both as settlers and invaders.

This is a systemic homeland security issue as it is about our vulnerable borders and minimizing the potential that they are taken advantage of by terrorists or drug traders.

Countries are continuing to coordinate their plans to protect vulnerable borders in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan and elsewhere.

Norway and Sweden share €73m (£62m) from Interreg funds for programmes designed to protect vulnerable border regions, in terms of environment, employment and social cohesion.

This nation must not place itself in the role of enabler to those who decided to cross a vulnerable border to invade the society of a foreign nation, and then feed on the fruits of that nation's good will with impunity.

It argues no other country wants to commit ground troops and it cannot deploy unilaterally, especially given its long, vulnerable border with Syria and Iraq.

Turkey shares a long, vulnerable border with Iraq and Syria and fears retaliation, not least against Turkish troops protecting an Ottoman tomb in Syria, which IS militants have approached.

Sending in troops could prompt retaliation by militants across a long and vulnerable border or against Turkish soldiers guarding an Ottoman tomb in Syria, to which IS is said to be close.

Although a Roman army was based in Tingis, it was decided that it would simply be too expensive to mount a reconquest of a vulnerable border region.