Sentences with phrase «massing along the borders»

In May 1940, as German forces were massing along the borders of the low countries and France, Clement Attlee's Labour opposition tabled a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose appeasement of Hitler had gone so disastrously wrong.

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Hurricane Harvey, the first major storm of its kind to make landfall in the U.S. in over a decade, has caused mass devastation along the southern border of the nation.

And the North Koreans had massed artillery along their southwestern border, within easy range of Seoul.

And after prevailing in some recent mass - casualty clashes, it now controls more territory along the border than ever.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

In a beautifully somber scene along the Irish coast, where choppy gray waves reflect the gray massing clouds, a rusty trawler bobs along under the stark hills bordering the shore.

Both sides have massed armies along their border in readiness for renewed conflict.