But they have since settled more than a score of disputed tracts of their long border.
By the late 17th century, a steady stream of tracts, pamphlets, sermons and books disseminated by the explosive growth of the printing press delivered a singular message about the sacred rights of individual conscience.
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For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.
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Following Mr. Weinberger's comments, several of the symposium participants indicated a desire for pro-deterrence analysis that could be used to rebut the NAS study and other nuclear abolition tracts (notably, a joint letter signed by 60 former flag officers last December).
Most of these tracts had undergone a thorough, seven-year-long environmental review.
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In a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers led by Anita Kozyrskyj found that babies born by C-section harbored a different set of microbes in their digestive tracts than those born vaginally, and that infants who were breast-fed had a different recipe of bacteria in their guts than those who were given formula.
Preserving vast tracts of land is a far different activity from backing a promising renewable energy technology, but protecting land is nonetheless important.
Even the World Bank presidential contention echoes doubts about free trade, with the U.S. candidate, Jim Yong Kim, having authored a compilation of anti-globalization tracts back in 2000.
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Some of the Israeli hardliners who cannot reconcile themselves to ceding tracts of Greater Israel take a fairly pragmatic view of the Golan Heights.
Bob Sivinski, program director for the Forest Legacy Program in New Mexico, said that the ranch is like a bridge, a corridor for wildlife between two big tracts of federal land.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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What's in question is whether Moore (1779-1863), a professor of classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and member of a prominent family that once owned large tracts of what is now Greenwich Village, is the originator of the lighthearted verse.
On the island, he pairs magnificent modern architecture, built on extra-large tracts of land, with a small, discerning clientele a formula that, at first, he wasn't sure would work, but has weathered the boom and recent bust of high-density vacation housing on more tourist-friendly islands.
Mainland Nova Scotia was said to feel like New England 50 years ago, a friendly, uncrowded maritime paradise with vast tracts of cheap, desirable land.
In an unusual move, the public prosecutor has reopened charges against a minor author, who was given a suspended sentence last year for writing atheist tracts.
This is a spot which contains some of the nerve tracts that transmit information from the eyes to the visual cortex at the back of the brain.
"Anyone who thinks I used to spend my holidays reading political tracts should have come with me for a week, " he said.
Other emergency plans call for letting huge tracts of farmland lie fallow to ensure a 50-day supply, in hopes that the drought will break.
If this still seems like nothing more than a bodice ripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.
In recent years, Mr. Skelton says he has worked with a growing number of clients who have purchased large tracts of land, often thousands acres, that don't come with enough water rights, so they end up having to purchase water elsewhere at a serious premium.
Conservative journals are full of debates about the meaning of McCainism, and publishing houses are releasing tracts by conservatives trying to point the Party in a new direction.
This is a country where 1 percent of the population owns more than half the land, a sickening proportion of it composed of large, completely unused tracts of farmland called latifundios.
Both Mr Lafontaine and Mr Hombach published books on economics last year and they read, respectively, like rival tracts by Keynes and Milton Friedman (albeit with a mite less intellectual rigour in both cases).
Huge tracts of forest disappeared under the plough to provide crops for a relentlessly rising population.
Bachmann belongs to a generation of Christian conservatives whose views have been shaped by institutions, tracts, and leaders not commonly known to secular Americans, or even to most Christians.
Nearly four years after a peace was signed in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, wide tracts of the country remain no-go areas, and at least 1m Angolans are still listed as displaced.
They complain of a heavy-handed Egyptian state intruding on their terrain, providing large tracts of land to Cairo-based businessmen and investors, and failing to involve them in developing the region's prosperity.
That has made Ireland, with its large tracts of sparsely populated moorland, rugged mountains and windswept valleys, a perfect setting for many of these challenging, unusual sports.
New tracts of land were created to establish the district of Fontvieille, by effectively building a platform over the sea, with space for new harbor facilities, a stadium, a hotel and a park dedicated to Princess Grace.
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