Sentence examples for as outposts from inspiring English sources

Daman and Diu survived as outposts of Portuguese overseas territory until 1961, when they became part of India.

Foreign governments have snapped up many properties in Turtle Bay through the years, as outposts for their United Nations missions.

There are several large slums in the east, but they are regarded as outposts in enemy territory.

But within the Israeli legal system, settlements are regulated, while scores of small communities in the West Bank — known as outposts — have grown without regulation.

The city also plays host to a fair number of prominent startups, including companies like Urban Airship, JanRain, Simple and Puppet Labs, as well as outposts of established players like Intel, Microsoft, IBM and eBay.

Having started out as outposts of do-it-yourself home computing, companies like Apple have become pioneers of seamless user experience, creating apps and interfaces that don't even demand anything as technical as the use of a keyboard or mouse, let alone insights into the inner workings of the technology involved.

On September 1952, the 65th Infantry was holding on to a hill known as "Outpost Kelly".

The Internal Auditor posts which are physically located in the Regional Offices are now shown under the Office of the Inspector-General at Headquarters, with the regional internal auditors treated as "outposted" staff, to better reflect the accountability for these positions.

The aim is to replicate the success of such places as Hong Kong, not as colonial outposts but as models of development.Mr Romer is best known for his insights about technology, not as a constitutional theorist.

There are outposts as far as London and Amsterdam.

Rebels said on Friday they had captured army outposts as near as four miles from South Kordofan's capital.