Part of a buffer zone, maybe

Usage examples of landmine.

Ruffled feathers were smoothed when it turned out that the offending laptop belonged to a reporter who was researching Angolan landmines for a completely unconnected programme.

Here, also, Boyd had set up a surreptitious antipersonnel landmine factory.

Boyd knew, in the abstract, that he was breaking the spirit of international law to which his country had agreed by overseeing the manufacture of antipersonnel landmines.

But if Boyd ignored me on the question of landmines he might well have ignored me on the priority of First Division as well.

The threshkreen, perhaps because their own wire and landmines prevented it, had ignored the feints and used the respite to restore their defenses.

It was possible they carried landmines and we watched anxiously for disturbed earth in the trail ahead.

With Sonny, there are landmines you could trip without even realizing it.

Back in the isolated lab in Zimia, he had worked for many months, tampering with the captive Omnius, adding subtle loops, errors, and virtual landmines to its programming.

The job was ideally suited to Scotty, who had made a career out of navigating the dual landmines of command necessity and engineering possibility.

I swear, if this keeps up I'm going to arm my secretary and install landmines in my outer office.

One political commentator had called him Scottish Labour's Mr Fixit, because of his ability to brush away the sand from around the party's many landmines and set about defusing them.

Lothar and his scouts fought the Unionists with their own tactics, poisoning the water-holes ahead of the Union troops, dynamiting the railway lines, hooking around them to attack their supply lines, setting ambushes and landmines, raiding at night and at dawn, driving off the horses, pushing his scouts to even their far borders of endurance.