borderland

• Authorizing the government to do things is clearly legislative; doing them is plainly executive, but in between is a vast borderland: how the executive shall go about executing the law.
• The peace of the borderland is maintained by a tribal militia under the command of a British officer Illustration: Fig. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
• This borderland is admirably wooded, and the Tweed valley is pre-eminent in that respect. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• His eyes were shut, and he was in that hot borderland which is the nearest approach to sleep at noontide in Nigeria The flies were pestering him, and he was thirsty--not with that thirst of the mouth which may be quenched with a long draught, but with the thirst of the throat that sands and sears. —  Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
• The inhabitants of this borderland are, to judge by appearance, superior to the people of the plains, who certainly strike the casual observer as being dirty and somewhat dull. —  Spanish Life in Town and Country

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