perimeter

• It said the jail is overcrowded, understaffed, the alarm system had actually been malfunctioning there, and the guard who was watching the perimeter was actually in the rest room. —  CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2006
• Now, looking at some of the footage that you have shown earlier of the Tora Bora attack on the outer perimeter -- in other words, the approach zone up to Tora Bora -- the fighting doesn't look that aggressive. —  CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2001
• But it's nowhere inside this perimeter, which is very, very secure for obvious reasons. —  CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008
• HUTTO: Actually inside what we call our perimeter, the heskos (ph) themselves. —  CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007
• Inside the perimeter was a heterogeneous collection of soldiery: a small detachment of the Royal Mendips, of which I formed part; several squads of 26th Indian Division, comprising both British and Indian troops; some sinister Dutchmen belonging to PEA Force; and a few other odd bods, including some Japanese troops, who were too useful for nasty jobs to be sent home to Nippon, and a solitary Chinese major who spent his days searching for unmarked Chinese graves. —  A Rude Awakening

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