Sentence examples for as a main base from inspiring English sources

Telluride, the rich ski town an hour away by car and a universe apart in terms of money and clout, has emerged as a main base of opposition to the proposed mill, called Piñon Ridge, which would be the first new uranium-processing facility in the United States in more than 25 years if it is approved by Colorado regulators next month.

As is well known, Shanxi is a main base of coal production in China.

Work is also underway on new training facility near the ground in Landore which as well as a main training base and academy in Fairwood.

As part of its mission to engage New Yorkers with the waterfront, Portside has pressed the Mary A. Whalen into service once more, as its main base and as a performance space.

To wit, Putin specifically notes the strategic importance of Crimea as the "main base of the Black Sea Fleet" and as a potential bulwark against NATO incursions eastward.

While America keeps Japan as its main base in Asia, Japan will play a much greater part in its own defence.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Afghan and American troops on Saturday made an air assault into the horn of Panjwai, a wide area that has served as the main base for the Taliban threatening Kandahar city, Maj.

And of course I´m a big supporter of the east end, having chosen whitebearyard as our main base.

That site later served as the main base for the expedition (1908) of another British explorer, Ernest Henry Shackleton, and from the 1950s it and several locations on Victoria Land served as scientific-research stations operated by the United States and New Zealand.

Aides say Mr. Clinton will use New York as his main base of operations as he begins the next phase of his life, even though it may be hard to imagine the former president relocating permanently from his action-packed address on Pennsylvania Avenue to the decidedly sleepier environs on Old House Lane in Chappaqua.

But Mr. Bahadur has accepted many Taliban fighters who fled the campaign into his area, and he continues to have close ties to the Haqqani network, a militant group allied with the government and the Taliban that uses North Waziristan as its main base to launch attacks against American forces in Afghanistan.