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Borders in sentence

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In the Middle East, any effort to alter borders is likely to create many more problems than it resolves.
For the EU to continue its Russia policies of the 1990’s in this new context would merely reintroduce sphere-of-influence politics rather than expand the borders of democracy.
Nuclear safety is primarily a national responsibility, but, since risks transcend national borders, close international cooperation is needed.
Simply put, nearly every Western intervention this century has had unforeseen consequences, which have spilled over borders and ultimately prompted another intervention.
They do not apply across borders, there is not enough loss-absorbing capital in large complex financial institutions, and the funding structure of big bank holding companies remains precarious.
Originally defined as those who leave their countries because of fear of persecution, refugees now also include those forced to cross borders because of conflict and violence.
From a security standpoint, the occupied territories constituted critical terrain for defending Israel against an attack on its borders by Arab states’ armies.
The concept of borders itself must be rethought in today's world: borders that run in minds and on the internet are as important as lines that divide geographical space.
Syria, which at first seemed to be just another instance of internal change, has spawned a civil war that has spread beyond the country’s borders, affecting all of its neighbors.
As he admitted in a recent interview with the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds, if pressured to concede on sacred Palestinian principles such as refugees, Jerusalem, and borders, he “would pack his suitcase and go away.”
Instead of insisting on what the Palestinians cannot give, Israel should focus on what is essential: the international legitimacy of its borders.
But the story has implications for scientists, engineers, administrators, and legal systems far beyond Italy’s borders.
This extraordinary manufacturing system of value added in many countries is made possible by the fact that information moves across, over, and through national borders as if they did not exist.
China’s End of ExuberanceMILAN – China’s growth has slowed considerably since 2010, and it may slow even more – a prospect that is rattling investors and markets well beyond China’s borders.
At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, emails, weapons, and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction.
But the 350,000 refugees who crossed European borders, and the more than 2,600 who drowned trying to reach them, in the first eight months of this year have opened our eyes.
But it is India – which maintains open borders with Nepal, and received millions of Nepali refugees during the civil war – that probably has the most at stake, as renewed conflict would destabilize India's hill districts, while leaving its Himalayan borders vulnerable to Chinese encroachment.
But that potential will be realized only if more knowledge, not less, flows across member countries’ borders.
The nuclear reactions that drive reactors and weapons are the same, as are the radioactive products that are dispersed by wind, rain, and water if released, with the same lack of respect for borders and the same indiscriminate long-term cancer and genetic hazards.
No one liked the Contact Group plan, but no one came up with a better solution than a federalized Bosnia, within its existing borders, that would provide guarantees for minorities.
A political plan for Syria is needed, one that envisages decentralized political structures within existing international borders, problematic as they may be.
Not only has a sustainable agreement on Greek debt finally been agreed; but the United Nations Refugee Agency has recorded just 42,213 refugees so far this year – nowhere near the million-plus who arrived at the EU’s borders in 2015.
Expansion of criminal networks occurs not only across borders; illegal markets have grown inside countries as well.
Even more important, the West should make it clear that it extends its definition of Europe not just to Russia’s borders, but across them.
Capital moves across borders more freely and more quickly than goods or people do.
A handful of bioengineering startups and aid groups, such as Engineers Without Borders, have begun to tackle health-related problems in refugee communities.
Then there is the Islamic State and its effort to establish a caliphate – a goal that not only implies dragging the Arab world back to the seventh century, but that also takes dead aim at many of the region’s modern borders.
But, though the Houthis’ effort to consolidate political control is far more complex than a sectarian narrative would suggest, for the Saudis it represents yet another frightening emergence of Shia power on their borders.
Economic, political, and social ties, not geography, determine this neighborhood’s ever-shifting borders, within which are Europe’s most important partners, from the United States to China to other emerging countries and non-state actors.
Millions of people in Southeast Asia venture to the Middle East to work, but millions more cross borders within the region.
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