6 sentences with 'frontier'

Example sentences and phrases with the word frontier and other words derived from it.

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« The most important and threatening frontier for Rome was to the north, on the east and north banks of the Rhine and Danube. »
« When times were hard for Russian peasants, they often fled to the frontier, either to Siberia or to what would later be called the Ukraine (meaning 'border region'). »
« Between 101 and 106 the Emperor Trajan launched his legions into the territory then called Dacia, which today corresponds to Romania. It was a frontier province and therefore a post against barbarian invasions. »
« Around 400 AD, the Romans left Britain. Their legions were needed to help defend the Roman heartland and Britain had always been an imperial frontier, with too few Romans to fully settle and 'civilise' it outside southern England. »
« "The human brain is the last and greatest biological frontier". This was stated by Dr James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, the key to the genetic code, in his recent book Discovering the Brain. »
« In 49 BC, he dared to cross the Rubicon River into northern Italy, the legal frontier across which no Roman general was allowed to take his troops; he reportedly announced that "the die was cast" and that he and his men were now committed to take power or face total defeat. »

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