Instead the goal of the survey was to measure how much influence a city yields outside its own borders — however bursting at the seams those borders might be.

其实这次调查的目的是要考量一下一个城市对其边界范围之外的影响力，不管有多少人想要涌入这些大城市的边界。

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Wherever it is placed on the borders of a capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a city.

一条铁路的起点站，无论我们把它设在一个都城边缘的任何一处，都等于是一个郊区的死亡和一个城市的兴起。

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And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood.

报血仇的在逃城境外遇见他，将他杀了，报血仇的就没有流血之罪。

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A prosecution witness alleged that the former Liberian president to Voinjama, had traveled on the road the main city in northern Liberia, close to the borders of Guinea and Sierra Leone, a day earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

History tells us what has happened to the likes of Borders and Circuit City once Amazon figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to storm into their industries.

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But the case could reverberate far beyond the borders of the Midwestern city.

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The Palestinian officials describe the talks about Jerusalem as difficult and have said it would be almost impossible to put Jerusalem aside since the future of the city is tied to so many of the other "core" issues such as borders, settlements, and security.

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