control the frontier
Frequency: 7.012.0 per million words
To have authority and power over a border area.
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- 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.