control the frontier

Frequency: 7.012.0 per million words

To have authority and power over a border area.

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Examples (10)

  • The rebels control the frontier and the surrounding area.
  • Government forces now control the eastern frontier after weeks of fighting.
  • For decades, a single militia controlled the remote frontier.
  • Who actually controls the porous frontier at night?
  • International observers say the frontier is controlled by rival clans.
  • If they can control the mountainous frontier, smuggling will drop.
  • The new administration vowed to control the northern frontier more effectively.
  • Patrols alone cannot control the vast desert frontier.
  • By dawn, peacekeepers had managed to control the volatile frontier.
  • Despite the ceasefire, no one can fully control the disputed frontier.