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• Using their instructions to bring up the boundary was an act of desperation. ' —  Stone of Tears
• The commission will report the results of the plebiscites to the powers with a recommendation for the boundary, and will terminate its work as soon as the boundary has been laid down and the new authorities set up Sidenote: Access to the Vistula The principal allied and associated powers will draw up regulations assuring East Prussia full and equitable access to and use of the Vistula. —  World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
• Unlike a land boundary, which is in general accessible from only two sides and tends to show, therefore, only two constituent elements in its border population, a sea boundary is accessible from many directions with almost equal ease; it therefore draws from many lands, and gives its population a variety of ethnic elements and a cosmopolitan stamp. —  Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
• (1893: 98) Perhaps figure/ground considerations could be invoked to provide an answer in this last case, based on the principle that the boundary is always owned by the figure — the background is topologically open (Jackendoff 1987, Appendix B). —  Boundary
• The commission will report the results of the plebiscites to the powers with a recommendation for the boundary, and will terminate its work as soon as the boundary has been laid down and the new authorities set up. —  World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.

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