Sentence examples for ancient outpost from inspiring English sources

BORN in Atush, an ancient outpost on the northern branch of the Silk Road, Mr. Tohti says he was a diligent, if slightly distracted, student.

The roots of Christianity in Crimea go back more than a thousand years; but the idea of Crimea as an ancient outpost of Orthodox Christianity is really only 160 years old, dating back to a programme of church-building to replace local mosques after the Crimean war of 1853-56.

She orders the destruction of McMurdo and the Ancient outpost in Ba'al's name, but she kills Ba'al when Teal'c discovers what she is doing.

SG-1 is sent in F-15s to McMurdo Station to gate to Proclarush Taonas, another Ancient outpost, to retrieve a Zero Point Module to power the Antarctic outpost.

They take the king's men to invade a nearby city -- a holy city, no less -- because their uncle Nizam (Ben Kingsley, channeling Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon) has acquired evidence that this ancient outpost is manufacturing and providing weapons to Persia's enemies.

SG-1 is brought to President Henry Hayes and General George Hammond, who inform them that, based on SG-1's accounts, they have recovered the Antarctic Stargate and are excavating the Antarctic Ancient outpost to reach the weapon that saved Earth in the original timeline.

The nuns were guardians of an ancient Christian outpost in the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, where a dialect of Aramaic (the tongue which Jesus spoke in everyday life) is still in use.The nuns were taken into custody by Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist faction which overran Maaloula late last year.

Still, for many scientists and most environmental campaigners, there is a "wall of reluctance" to ending the moratorium, said Véronik de la Chenelière, a biologist at the Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals in Tadoussac, a whale watching and research hub 12 miles west of this ancient whaling outpost.

Locanda's bar dispenses cocktails laced with Italian elixirs like Aperol and Strega, while its reasonably priced wine list, which spans not just Italy, but Spain, France, the Canary Islands and other ancient Roman outposts, encourages exploration.

A few miles away is an ancient Roman trading outpost.

II Lagooned in gold, Seem not those jetty promontories rather The outposts of some ancient land forlorn, Uncomforted of morn, Where old oblivions gather, The melancholy unconsoling fold Of all things that go utterly to death And mix no more, no more With life's perpetually awakening breath?