Sentence examples for In this outpost, from inspiring English sources

The pine forests crowd menacingly around and the inhabitants seem powerless in the face of the elements: free will doesn't feature in this outpost of "inescapable" givens.

The keen national interest in Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, is not shared in this outpost of the state.

The police officers in this outpost in the eastern end of Brooklyn are part of a mini crime-suppression operation, one reliant on money, manpower and labor.

The phrase has the burnish of a truism in this outpost amid the vast, high-desert expanse of far West Texas, about 50 miles north of Big Bend National Park.

Marijuana has been mainstream in this outpost of the counterculture, 8,000 feet in the Rockies and an hour northwest of Denver, since the days of Bob Marley's cigar-size "spliffs" and the jokes of Cheech and Chong.

Even in this outpost of outsiders, Quentin is treated as unwelcome; only Leona, who has not recovered from the death of her frail, beautiful brother, pulls up a chair.

In the early 1700s, this outpost was the home of the governor of the territory of Louisiana, a link in an ambitious plan by French explorers based in Canada to control southern North America.

MOISÉS VILLE, Argentina — At its height in the 1940s, this outpost on Argentina's grasslands had four synagogues for a population of 5,000, a theater for Yiddish-language acting troupes, a newspaper filled with feverish debates about the creation of the state of Israel and saloons where Jewish gauchos galloping in from the pampas could nurse a drink alongside fellow cowhands.

But he says he never encountered an enemy as tenacious as what he saw immediately after arriving at this outpost in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.

This outpost in this wintry valley consists of a gas station, a visitor's center, an avalanche forecast center and the Best Western Glacier Park Lodge.

The Israeli soldiers bottled up at this outpost in flak jackets and helmets spend most of their days listening.