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boundary

A boundary is the line around something's outside edge. The elephants have to live within the boundary of the park or risk being shot. There have been many times in their lives when the boundaries between their personal and professional lives have disappeared. More manufactured goods are crossing international boundaries every day. An international commission that regulates the boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada.

boundary

the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something a line determining the limits of an area (= limit, bound) the greatest possible degree of something what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior to the limit of his ability

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Simple sentences

To speak a foreign language is to break a boundary. To speak many languages is to break several. But to speak Esperanto is to want to break all at once.
The Rhine is the boundary between France and Germany.
It is beyond the boundary of human knowledge.
I know no boundary except for the limit between heaven and earth.
It is very difficult to draw the boundary between love and friendship.

Movie subtitles

Who can define the boundary between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
There was a boundary to us then.
Well, I'd taken my surveying crew out to verify the boundary. of the Kansas Land and Development Company's property.
When the general gave us the deeds. our boundary line was to be 500 yards around the building.
Boundary line, 57th Precinct to signal 32.
Gentlemen. because of the Peralta grant. the New Mexico-Arizona boundary. has just been altered.
This is the boundary of my small world.
I'll take a sweep out toward the canyon. You head for the south boundary.
Following the explosion of three single-megaton missiles within this one county boundary, it's been estimated that each surviving doctor would be faced by at least 350 casualties, many suffering from severe second- and third-degree burns.
Estimating boundary in 21 minutes.
That's MacDonald's boundary.
Vassal Tatewaki Asano in charge of boundary gates has arrived!
Rodan can fly within a limited boundary between land and water before being stopped by the invisible magnetic force screens that surround the island.
Where the boundary fort is?
At any attempt at escape, sentries have orders to fire on officers outside the camp boundary.
But before you see him I urge you to find your boundary stones.
With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.
You head for the south boundary.
I want him taken to the Texas boundary.
Estimating treaty boundary in 21 minutes.
Oh, the idea of boundary rights, property lines, real estate, well people go to court or to war over them, right?
Oh, Paula, Bart and I gotta head up creek to the north boundary.
From here to the south boundary it's about the same.
You see right out in front of you, that veld out there, that's your east boundary.
Drawing a clear boundary, and mutual distrust.
That sound was the turbulence caused by the penetration of a boundary layer. - What boundary layer?
A boundary layer between what and what?
We live our lives according to the boundary which separates the absence of Gods from the absence of men.
On the boundary of your reality and mine.
Here, on Zeta Minor, is the boundary between existence as you know it and the other universe, which you just don't understand.
And you, by coming here, have crossed the boundary into that other universe to plunder it.
If you are still within the boundary then, you must be thrown to the Horda.

News and current affairs

But the boundary line between such objectives and protectionism can be a very fine one.
In Canada, the world's first full-scale CCS project, Boundary Dam, came onstream in October 2014, proving that the technology is viable and ready to be deployed.
If one is willing to traverse the boundary of the unknown, one should pursue the course that promises the greatest potential impact.
The boundary between implicit and explicit incitement is not easily drawn, but, again, it should be wider rather than narrower.
By firing missiles on Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, a boundary has been crossed.
The preeminent power does not have to patrol every boundary and project its strength everywhere.
And the norms and rules that govern international institutions constitute a boundary on American power - and thus as a check on its hegemony.
The extent and role of national minorities in Ireland and central and eastern Europe are similar, as are those of external homeland nationalisms and cross-boundary agreements.
Is there a sensible boundary between sense and nonsense in claiming self-defense?
And the regulatory boundary problem persists: risky activities may migrate to areas where regulation is lax and reproduce the problems with the shadow banking system that we have witnessed during the crisis.
And there are territorial disputes about small islands and potential gas reserves near the China-Japan maritime boundary.
If the fence followed the 1967 boundary there would be few objections.
We would do better to think of them as red and yellow, separated not by some sharp boundary, but by a continuous range of red-oranges and orange-yellows.
No central bank would permit deflation for long, and the current level of inflation probably represents the lower boundary that most monetary authorities consider acceptable.
Can such a boundary between power and capital be set?
One agreement signed during Wen's visit was a new set of guiding principles on how to settle boundary disputes between the two countries.
Unfortunately, in today's most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.
Only negotiated agreement on all of the critical outstanding issues - boundary definition, Jerusalem, security guarantees for Israel, and refugees - can do that.
Likewise, dreams of cultural links with Central Asia by themselves do not make Pakistan a boundary between it and the teeming masses of India.
But when those boundary lines are blurred, when the dikes crumble and the antiracist watchdogs allow themselves to be intimidated or lower their guard, the FN tries to make itself at home.
A more plausible scenario is that DSM IV gave autism purchase by introducing a milder form that is close to the extremely populous boundary of normality.
A middle-aged South Korean female tourist was shot to death while walking on the beach, having inadvertently crossed over the boundary of the tourist zone.
Furthermore, the definition of the boundary between retail and investment-banking activities will leave an important grey area and generate perverse incentives.

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