Sentence examples for chief base from inspiring English sources

Colchester was the chief base, but the fortresses of individual legions at this stage have not yet been identified.

Despite this, Mr Ocalan had succeeded in making Syria his chief base for a propaganda campaign across Europe, wherever the 1m-odd Kurdish expatriates live.

In 1878 it was chosen as the chief base for the Beiyang ("North Ocean") fleet, China's first modern naval force, and was again fortified.

It gained further prominence in the 12th and 13th centuries, becoming the chief base of the khanate of Chagatai (part of the Mongol empire).

At first the chief base of the Kamakura bakufu lay in the shōen seized from the Taira family and in the limited administrative revenues from public estates in provinces granted to Yoritomo by the imperial court.

Hubbard realised that Hollywood types in the insecure dream factory would be especially susceptible and made this his chief base, although took to travelling by sea to avoid the tax authorities.

Before that, she was the paper's South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi.

Previously, she was the paper's East Africa bureau chief based in Nairobi.

Dionne Searcey, The Times's West Africa bureau chief based in Dakar, Senegal, discussed the tech she's using.

On shore, sailors like Jackson and Mike Sebourn, an aviation maintenance chief based in Atsugi, Japan, were also mobilised for the relief effort.

Luce, formerly the Financial Times's south Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi and now the paper's chief Washington correspondent, spells out these exercises in self-damage in painful and illuminating detail.