How To Use Borderland In A Sentence
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We're journeying in the psychological borderlands of music, and what you bring with you in your head and your heart, as well as how you listen, may affect your perception of these experimental sounds.
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In a similar vein, the last three essays of the collection use the metaphor of the borderlands to highlight the representation of hybrid subjectivities in the works of notable American and post-colonial minority writers.
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All princes had to face the problems posed by distant and turbulent borderlands.
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As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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His eyes were shut, and he was in that hot borderland which is the nearest approach to sleep at noontide in Nigeria.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Another important point is to demonstrate how culture and politics shape borders, by showing examples of borderlands where each side of a boundary has its own peculiarities.
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Even in the previous century the parapsychological faculties of the human brain had belonged to the questionable field of the so-called borderland sciences.
Good Night, Mrs. Calabash
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The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
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Somehow, writing extremely plot-driven fiction seems to have pushed me over into the borderlands of genre -- in most bookstores my book's shelved with literary fiction, but at least one genre bookstore carries it (Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego) and it was reviewed in Mystery Scene.
Archive 2010-05-01
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By doing so, he positions himself within the borderlands he studies, and as an actor and enunciator of narratives that rupture colonialist forces at work under new guises.
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Dulongjiang area is the north part of Burma-Malaya Geoblock of Gondwanaland. During th Mesozoic Era it collided with the Eurasian Plate, and became the southwestern borderland of East Asia Continent.
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Taken as a whole the book makes the point that the new fledgling field of ‘economic sociology’ has made valuable contributions on the borderland between economics and the other social sciences.
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That kind of research is in a gray, borderland area.
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There are a lot of books that work on the borderland between those two domains.
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His policies in the borderlands were essentially conservative, although his Welsh birth and descent were an advantage in his dealings with Wales.
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This geographical location of the Spanish borderlands can be described by the Nahuatl word nepantla, an indigenous term meaning ‘the place in the middle.’
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This is the land of the Brahui, and the flat wall of its frontier limestone barrier is one of the most remarkable features in the configuration of the whole line of Indian borderland.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The terror has come to the desert of southern Arizona, along with a few pockets of the Texas borderlands.
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The Upper Ohio Valley had been an underpopulated borderland that, by 1748, had become home to Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo migrants from east of the Appalachians.
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Now, it would have been far better to have passed on to the land beyond or swing back to earth again, for a borderland is the most unsafe land in which to dwell on account of its roaming herds of wild beasts, marauding, vicious men, and dangers too numerous to mention.
Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,
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Even in the previous century the parapsychological faculties of the human brain had belonged to the questionable field of the so-called borderland sciences.
Good Night, Mrs. Calabash
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Over time the economic ties forged through trading and raiding knitted originally disparate peoples into a cohesive borderlands society that had its own standards, practices, and, Brooks asserts, culture.
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That was where I now stood: at the borderland between sacred ground and secular; between Barbarossian territory and the rest of the world.
GALILEE
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‘Coming from the northeast of England and near the Scottish borderlands, I knew a little bit about castles,’ smiles Sylvester.
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Truzzi was correct in noting that we share similar interests in and attitudes toward the borderlands of science with other skeptical organizations, and I appreciate his acknowledgment of our differences as well.
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In Sapogonia, Ana Castillo explores the geographic and psychic borderlands between the United States and Mexico as internalized in a fantasy of the myth of the Conquistador and its potential violence to women.
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Like many historians, the author prefers the word borderland to frontier because it connotes a place of instability, a place of conflict among several sources of power.
Drums Along the Niagara
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The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
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It is probable enough that there exists a considerable area of what may be called borderland phenomena to which scientific methods of inquiry may be found applicable, and which it is theoretically the business of science to investigate.
Religious Reality
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He points at yet other borderlands, those between the margins and the mainstream, and hints at the adjustments Chicanos and Chicanas are having to make in order to cater to market demands.
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By 1774, Iroquoia had become a true borderlands region.
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The celebration was a multilayered borderland where performance, art, and architecture expressed messages whose meanings differed depending upon the observer's position.
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Such a government Turkey does not have. just as in Mexico-another "borderland" country on the edge of the rich world with which it has a lot in common - Turkey's economic reforms in the 1980s were deceptive.
The Sick Man Coughs Again
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The label urban fantasy. 15 years ago, urban fantasy was what we called stuff like Charles DeLint and the Borderlands series and all those rock 'n' roll elf stories.
PunkAssBlog.com
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Most of this money came from a special fund earmarked for development of "borderland" areas of the country.
The Foundation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research
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We categorize land to designate its potential productivity; it becomes highland, lowland, borderland, outland, even wasteland.
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Many of these writers worked in the shadowy borderland between Academia, Bohemia, and Grub Street.
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The fault occupies the farthest reaches of the friction zone between the Pacific and North American plates, an area geophysicists know as the borderlands.
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There is also a link to the university's Institute for Oral History (utminers. utep.edu/panihm/oralhist. htm), which sounds fascinating for anyone interested in borderland history.
Migration: documented on the web
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The Civil War had been fought in the main in the borderlands, precisely where the national question was at its most urgent.
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The book focuses on the Economic Quadrangle, an ambitious and visionary plan to create a zone of economic cooperation, integration and prosperity in the borderlands of the upper-Mekong region.
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Her music is a reflection of her multicultural childhood in Mexico and her studies in anthropology in Minnesota, with its combination of Mexican folklore, boleros, borderland rancheras, opera, and American jazz and blues.
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Plagued by tribal warfare, autocratic and murderous government, and an inefficient and corruption - ridden economy, it is trapped on the bloody borderland between primitivism and civilization.
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The whole area of the borderland between what is normal aging and very, very early Alzheimer's disease is an intensively investigated area of research currently.
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Lomeli dwells on the extensive literary production from the Mexican American cultural borderlands, as well as on the task of recovery and inclusion by Chicano Studies of works prior to the Chicano Rennaissance.
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Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers.
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The painter Cristina C rdenas has used art to raise up a man who in these borderlands is officially hunted and despised.
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Judging from settler letters and narratives, resettlement to the eastern borderlands did not produce radical change in the way that peasants defined themselves.
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The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op monitors the annual quality and quantity of salmonberries locally called '' akpiks '' (cloudberry – '' Rubus chamaemorus ''), and has documented recent observations of high temperatures early in the year that "burn" berry plant flowers, early spring melt that results in inadequate moisture for the plants later in the year, and intense summer sun that "cooks" the berries before they can be picked [15].
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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Quite independently of his Historical Matrix Model, which includes other conceptual components besides the ones I have highlighted here, Shermer is persuasive in showing how Wallace's personality and the peculiar mix of his "borderland" scientific interests (particularly mesmerism and phrenology) combined to make him vulnerable to a host of other unorthodox viewpoints, such as his ardent campaign against vaccination and his strong commitment to socialist causes.
Darwin and His Doppelgänger
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In Acts o f Faith it was Africa and in Crossers it's the Arizona and Mexican desert where as one of your characters describes, borderland beauty cohabited with violence .... [and the] world of cattle and horses and operatic landscapes, the parallel world of drug lords and coyotes and murder.
A Conversation with Philip Caputo about Crossers
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Youth within the economic and cultural geography of neoliberal capitalism occupy a borderland in which the desiring machine of commodification exists side by side with the imposing threat of the prison-industrial complex.
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As she sat in the box looking on at this gross impertinence, she seemed to herself to be watching herself after a long/degringolade/, which had brought her, not to the gutter, but to the smart restaurant, the smart music-hall, the smart night club; the smart everything else that is beyond the borderland of even a lax society.
The Woman with the Fan
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These are in fact unquiet borderlands and are witness to cross-border insurgency, gun-running, narcotics and AIDS, smuggling, money laundering, trafficking in women and illicit immigration.
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In constituting them as analytic borderlands, discontinuities are given a terrain, rather than reduced to a dividing line.
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Uruguay was created in an underpopulated borderland between Brazil and Argentina.
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The earl's apparent success in pacifying the Middle Shires and civilizing the erstwhile borderlands led the king to involve him in the creation of other legal institutions throughout Scotland.
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To investigate my hypothesis, I examine the Anglo-Scottish borderlands in the 16th century.
Crime and Law
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Sonia's husband, a coyote, relied on his borderland knowledge to track her after she fled across the border.
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The detective figure in the hard-boiled story, then, operates in a frequently murky borderland between good and evil, where he can never be sure at any given time which is which.
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To build the world's biggest dam here and expect it to light the entire continent is like building the world's biggest nuclear plant in the land of the Taliban -- or the world's biggest medical marijuana farm in Mexico's borderlands.
Lori Pottinger: Grand Illusions for African Energy in Davos
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Inhale follows Paul into the dregs of drug and sex trafficking dens in the Baja borderlands where all things are possible to those who are tough enough, desperate enough, or rich enough to define a new asocial world in which saving one's own life, or the life of one's child, is seen by those convulsed with power, greed, grief, fear, or rage as the only thing that really matters.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Take a Deep Breath (Inhale): Organ Panics
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The Dee Estuary, the Wirral peninsula and the Welsh borderlands are all within easy access.
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Prison is a cultural borderland - both a site on the edge of normality and a place within which subordinate cultures press up against each other, competing among themselves for power.
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A mystical borderland had been passed and Hart, for the first time, knew himself, and in so knowing, tasted wisdom.
PAINT THE WIND
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Plagued by tribal warfare, autocratic and murderous government, and an inefficient and corruption-ridden economy, it is trapped on the bloody borderland between primitivism and civilization.
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Their continued presence in the borderlands demonstrates that the use of the border to mark nationality remained incomplete.
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Bromhall's next foray into the borderlands of science concerns the infamous Mother Goddess myth that all societies were supposedly female-fixated in prehistory.
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The rolling, gentle hills of the borderland of Northern Ireland transform on the turn of a bend into rugged, exposed crags.
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Son of a postman in a remote village of Béarn, in the borderlands with Spain, his trajectory bears many similarities to that of Raymond Williams, son of a railwayman in the marches of Wales, who was aware of the kinship between them.
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Nay Ley stands in silence, in the shadow of a small hut in a clearing at the foot of the Shan mountains, on the borderlands between Burma and Thailand.
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Over 60 percent of the settlers came from England's borderlands region surrounding the Irish Sea: the Scottish lowlands, northern Ireland, and the six northern counties of England.
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Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making.
Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
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The terror has come to the desert of southern Arizona, along with a few pockets of the Texas borderlands.
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Parking my car, I gaze over the bleak wooded Borderlands, and munch a pink saveloy.
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That was where I now stood: at the borderland between sacred ground and secular; between Barbarossian territory and the rest of the world.
GALILEE
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The brand-spanking-new hardcore gym has filled a gaping hole on the Manhattan-Bronx borderlands, a neighborhood in need of a place to pump serious iron.
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The western and southern borderlands of the Russian Empire were both its most urbanized and industrialized regions and the thickest with national minorities.
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Though science lay me by the heels, I'll assert that the crocus, which is a pioneer on the windy borderland of March, would not show its head except on the sounding of the hurdy-gurdy.
Journeys to Bagdad
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As time went by, people in the up-country gradually move to the borderland, which promote the unity and communication between Hans and minor nationalities.
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Shermer distinguishes normal science, nonscience, and borderlands science and lists examples of each, along with his judgment about their scientific validity.
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The painter Cristina C rdenas has used art to raise up a man who in these borderlands is officially hunted and despised.
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[A new review from noted book critic Christopher "Bookworm" Hsiang, penned from his cell in Folsom Prison.] [This review appears in a slightly different form in Dispatches From the Border, the newsletter for Borderlands Books.]
October 13th, 2008
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Historically, the region has always been known as the borderlands, a sort of no man's land of some 65 million people stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, people whose identities have been confused and sometimes willfully distorted by the ebb and flow of competing empires.
Trouble Next Door
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These foot soldiers were spread throughout the borderlands of the Empire to protect from invasion and secure against revolts.
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Thus, while the performance as a performance dissolves into the resistant emptiness that Phelan theorizes, what has been performed gestures toward geographic and cultural borderlands that refuse to vanish.
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If Cymbeline attempts to portray James's project for union as already having happened in Britain's ancient past, then the savage borderlands of the new empire are the last places one might want to enact such a coming together.
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A mystical borderland had been passed and Hart, for the first time, knew himself, and in so knowing, tasted wisdom.
PAINT THE WIND
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The nadir came when his brother, Perdiccas III, died in battle against Illyrian invaders, who occupied the north-western borderlands.
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The terror has come to the desert of southern Arizona, along with a few pockets of the Texas borderlands.
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Regardless of its historical accuracy, the traditional version of the story of enfeoffment gave this northern borderland a legitimate relation with the heart-land of the Zhou dynasty.
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The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
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The Civil War experience throughout the entire borderland, in short, comprised variations on a single pattern.
Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – February – 19
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The jumpcar had carried them successfully away from the battle plain of Marsay, and they had made camp near the outer edges of the Mandraque "borderlands," so called since the lands of all five clans were accessible from that particular point: a five-minute walk in any direction.
Darkness of the Light
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I mean consciousness is really still studied as much by philosophers as by cognitive scientists, and that tells you we're still in that borderlands area.
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The writer Alan Weisman, author of "La Frontera", called the borderlands "the most dramatic intersection of first and third world realities anywhere on the globe.
About this Project
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Strikingly large-scale as that may be, all of that doesn't even include the "covert war", fought mainly via unmanned aerial vehicles, along the Pakistani tribal borderlands, which is clearly going to intensify.
Asia Times Online
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Mary Forster Forster Forrester, Foster was another one of the large Borderland reiver families.
First Man
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Witte's life is traced from his childhood in the Caucasian borderlands of the empire as the son of a midlevel Russian functionary and the maternal grandson of a prominent and genealogically well-connected imperial family.
A Statesman For the Czar
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In fact, they stood on the borderland of that feudal retainership which was being rapidly extinguished.
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
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Within the cosy ghetto of serious science fiction and fantasy readers, the term "slipstream" is sometimes used as a label for stories that linger in the liminal borderlands between die-hard genre definitions.
Genre Fiction