Sentence examples for an important outpost from inspiring English sources

By the late 1910s, Taos, New Mexico, had become an important outpost of American art.

By Friday they had also taken Gharyan, an important outpost along the trade route to the south.

It served them as an important outpost, and the 115-foot (35-metre) high minaret is one of the town's landmarks.

The tavern was an important outpost on the old King's Highway, running from New York to Boston (now the Boston Post Road).

For the Venetians, who ruled it on and off throughout the Middle Ages, Korcula was an important outpost on the spice route.

Russia's air base in Kant is seen as an important outpost for the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-dominated alliance of former Soviet nations intended as a counterweight to NATO.

Spain has repeatedly called for the return of Gibraltar, a strategically important outpost at the entrance to the Mediterranean, as it views British sovereignty there as an affront to its territorial integrity.

With the division of the Roman Empire in 395, Damascus became an important military outpost for the Byzantine Empire.

"Hamadeh highlights the system as a strategic victory for Iran, since it creates an important Iranian outpost in Lebanon, bypassing Syria," the cable said.

"Hamadeh highlights the system as a strategic victory for Iran since it creates an important Iranian outpost in Lebanon, bypassing Syria, Washingtonn was told.

In Soviet times the Primorye region was an important military outpost, a centre of the fishing industry—and the site of many Stalin-era labour camps (many prisoners settled in the region after their release).