1.   So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure, the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy.

2.   Albright urged Beirut and Damascus to do more to pacify the frontier zone that Hezbollah guerrillas now largely govern.

3.   Fierce gunfights between Palestinians and Israeli troops broke out again in the frontier zone between Gaza and Egypt, wounding dozens.

4.   This is a heavily fortified frontier zone with Jordan, so the experience may seem less than biblical.

5.   A major international project is under way to set up or expand camps in southern and central Albania to receive the refugees from the northern frontier zone.

6.   Moscow spent large sums to attract workers eastward, far from their homes and families, to a rough frontier zone nine days from Moscow by train.

7.   He said they would be guarding valleys along the frontier zone.

8.   Those hostilities are partially to blame for the power vacuum in the frontier zone which allows the PKK for its part to operate at will.

9.   Under the Shanghai agreements, each signatory country will be required to withdraw its regular troops from the designated frontier zone.