Sentence examples for a remote former from inspiring English sources

This novel's hero journeys to return a woman's body to her family in a remote former Soviet Republic.

The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed in a remote former mission station.

Sakhalin is a remote former penal colony where the sea freezes for four months a year and villagers have been known to sleep in tents pitched in their bedrooms when the heating fails.

Telluride is already a pilgrimage spot for film lovers, who mingled over Labor Day weekend with fly-fishing enthusiasts, mountain bikers and other worshipers in the church of high-end leisure, turning a remote former mining town into a holy city of movies.

By late 2004, the sculpture had been removed to a remote former industrial site called Union Point Park on the Oakland Estuary, opening to the public in 2005.

Within the hour they were piled into the back of trucks to leave the rehabilitation centre and be taken to a UN refugee centre in Bamberi, a safer part of this remote former French colony.

From behind a desk in New York, it is easy for CDM officials to believe when companies like Grupo Terra affirm that the Hidro Xacbal Dam, "presents the possibility to provide a remote, forgotten, former war torn area...with essential infrastructure and the means to channel development projects in the area while respecting the lifestyle and the culture of local communities".

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, Feb. 28 - Preliminary results in parliamentary elections here gave an unexpectedly lopsided victory to the ruling party on Monday, drawing a failing grade from the world's largest election-monitoring body and a storm of protests from the other five parties in this remote former Soviet republic.

The two parties felt Macron had tried subtly to keep them from office, and now think the remote former banker deserves to suffer for his misreading of the public's anger with the elite.

In later years Mr. Merwin was equally known for his work as a conservationist — in particular for his painstaking restoration of depleted flora, including hundreds of species of palm, on the remote former pineapple plantation in Hawaii where he made his home.

If the situation worsens significantly, there is a remote possibility that former White House Social Secretary and Chicago businesswoman, Desiree Rogers, will be asked to proofread the personnel roster".