Sentence examples for base for expansion in from inspiring English sources

As elsewhere, Isis leaders in Iraq used an existing local group as a base for expansion in Egypt.

Had Royal Bank merged with Bank of Montreal, which bought Harris Bank of Illinois in 1984, Harris could have been the base for expansion in the United States.

He was born in London after his father moved from the United States in 1911 to register his business in England as a base for expansion into Europe.

It remained the primary base for Arab expansion in Africa until Qayrawan was founded in Tunisia in 670.

To provide an economic base for expansion, Nurhachi shrewdly used his position in Manchuria to amass a great fortune from his monopoly of mining in the area and the trade in pearls, fur, and ginseng (a medicinal root) from the area and from Korea.

It said that the acquisition of about 2,000 Circle K outlets would give it a foothold in fast-growing states in the Southwest and the South and provide a base for further expansion in the United States.

During the 16th century, when their regime in Egypt was strongest, the Ottomans used Egypt as a base for expansion to the south.

Bengal was thenceforth the base for British expansion in India.

It became an important town on the Appian Way and was a base for Roman expansion in southern Italy.

In 1654, Oliver Cromwell decided to turn on Spain (which had been the first state to recognise the Commonwealth of England) and seize the island of Hispaniola to make it a base for English expansion in the Caribbean.

Growing emphasis on pump storage, he thinks, provides a sound base for expansion.