political boundary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalandboundary
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet some features do diffuse across the border, making it difficult to imagine how the effect of apoliticalboundarymight be included in the model in any general way.
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Moreover, the ecclesiastical boundary between the two is not the same as the civil andpoliticalboundary.
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To split the management of these two great river systems along thepoliticalboundarywould be a disaster.
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The river came to be thepoliticalboundarybetween the unsettled lands of the two counties.
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All boundaries either follow apoliticalboundary(country boundary, province boundary, etc.), or coast lines.
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Migration refers to the movement of persons from a locality of origin to a destination place across some pre-defined,politicalboundary.
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The diverse coinage and bills of credit that circulated earlier had served to confirm the political boundaries of the states.
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She talks about the issues involved in using political boundaries as definitional for contrasting a language to a dialect.
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Natural boundaries rarely coincide with economic, social or political boundaries.
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The dissolution of existing political boundaries was a symptom of man's progress rather than a policy goal.
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To some extent, then, the end of international political boundaries would be mirrored by the end of domestic, individualistic, and legalistic property boundaries.
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These motif groups generally cleaved along political boundaries at the confederation level.
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It may be a step towards globalisation and cosmopolitanism, or an attempt to rebuild social and political boundaries along a more easily defensible line.
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Transboundary water pollution concerns water-borne waste that crosses international political boundaries as a result of natural water flow.
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From that time on, an area in which one and the same dialect was spoken has been separated by political boundaries.
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Local political boundaries provided culturally-resonant mechanisms for limiting the reach of redistributive government.
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This shows that when one limits their scope to the population living within a givenpoliticalboundary, particular human populations do not always grow to match the available food supply.
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Instead, participation was made possible by moving between places, and learning how to navigate many different social and political boundaries.
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There is always a prior question of how we should draw the political boundaries.
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In modern systems, in contrast, technological construction is less dependent on political boundaries, purposes, and fortunes.
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