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But when he did speak, he often came out with ideas that bordered on the fantastic.

Emma could not like what bordered on a reflection on Mr. Weston, and had half a mind to take it up; but she struggled, and let it pass.

Such incidents occur periodically between the two Koreas, which are bordered on multiple sides by water and have sizable fishing industries.

Our fully equipped tester bordered on the decadent, thanks to a sumptuous shade of dark brown leather and unique dark-finish bamboo trim.

The Europe-wide "stress tests" used to measure the health of the sector have bordered on being a joke.

His press conference on Wednesday was full of conciliation that bordered on contrition.

Officials said air quality in parts of the foothills bordered on hazardous.

When their views bordered on treason, Imperial stormtroopers raided the Durron home and rounded up the dissidents.

For years, the battle between the open source movement and Microsoft bordered on religious warfare.

For Zwingli, the belief that the bread and wine contained the physical body and blood of Christ bordered on idolatry.

which captured the wildness of the natural world around him but which bordered on abstraction.

the lane was bordered on the left by wild , low - growing brambles , on the right by a high , neatly manicured hedge.

The theory lectures bordered on incoherent; they alluded to everything but analyzed nothing.

He had strength for the long game, finesse and subtlety for the short game, but also a daring that bordered on recklessness.

The Sayan Range is bordered on the east by the mountains of the Baikal region.

The lane was bordered on the left by wild, low-growing brambles, on the right by high, neatly manicured hedge.

Mr. Jobs's pursuit for aesthetic beauty sometimes bordered on the extreme.

Bhutan's actually bordered on its north and south by 38 percent of the world's population .

But as Yang bordered on suicidal, his family pushed him to seek a new relationship.

Kim Jong-il's love of the cinema bordered on the obsessive.

the incidents that followed bordered on the absurd.

The procedure you suggested bordered on fraud.

Manchhar Lake (also spelled Manchar) is typically bordered on the north by croplands and settlements.

It is bordered on the west by Romania and on the north, south and east by Ukraine.

His remarks bordered on rudeness.

His humour Bordered on the edge of being vulgar.

By 2006, the country bordered on civil war.

My existence bordered on the tragic