national border

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandborder

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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border
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɔː.dər/us
/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/
a line that has been agreed to divide one country ...
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(Definition ofnationalandborderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are comparisons across time and acrossnationalborder, across literary form and musical style.
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Both the order and the contrast graphs show scale-dependent patterns that coincide with thenationalborder.
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Nations are forced to liftnationalbordercontrols.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We cannot solve the problems of asylum, migration and human trafficking simply by relying on our ownnationalbordercontrols.
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It is not sensible to have one rule apply on one side of anationalborderand another rule on the other side.
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For this we do not need the return ofnationalbordercontrols.
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The new clause is needed to clarify the position of monuments or buildings that straddle anationalborder.
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This group of amendments confirm the status of monuments or buildings that straddle anationalborder.
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The agency will not replacenationalborderguards.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Of course, the current situation is that we still havenationalbordercontrol forces which work well and have proved themselves.
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If somebody has an accident and sustains an injury, does it matter whether they are on a train that is crossing anationalborderor not?
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It is important for growth and employment that people on one side of anationalbordercan move over to the other side of the border.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to thenationalborder.
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They were considered one village until thenationalborderwas drawn in 1809.
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It is often illegal to pass anationalborderoutside border controls, and therefore illegal to walk around many tripoint markers.
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All testing was to be driven underground, just so long as the radioactivity did not go beyond thenationalborderof the testing country.
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Changes of thenationalborderultimately deprived the building of any strategic role.
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Asnationalbordercontrols became more effective, the spread of disease was lessened, thereby preventing the epidemics common in previous times.
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Its current strength of 5 infantry battalions being tasked with guarding thenationalborderagainst all type of incursion, infiltration, smuggling and criminal activities.
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This plan included protecting the country'snationalborderand gradually overcoming difficulties within the country itself.
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