Sentence examples for distant outpost from inspiring English sources

But the boom in demand and production, and their byproducts - jobs and investments - are evident far from this distant outpost.

In 1849 the imperial government made Vancouver Island a crown colony, expecting that an orderly settlement in this distant outpost of empire would follow.

In New York's political world, the office can seem like a distant outpost, a position more about ribbon-cuttings and proclamations than actual power.

During the 1500s messages from this distant outpost could reach the imperial capital Beijing in a matter of days via a system of smoke signals and fires.

This year the impossibility of seeing everything has been made official: The show has a distant outpost, with works by roughly 30 of its artists, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The telegram, addressed to a soldier serving at a distant outpost of the Indian Army, read:  "Your father-in-law is serious.

The problems come when they arrive in distant outposts and make the same assumptions there.

One question at branch campuses all over the world — from the Middle East to Asia — is whether far-smaller, distant outposts can provide the same experience as home campuses.

The Yankees let him gobble up innings before small crowds in distant outposts as a cavalcade of younger prospects push past him on their way to Yankee Stadium.

But the dead are owed a word of gratitude, some acknowledgment of what they labored for and bequeathed in distant outposts.

Made of corrugated iron, it was a flat-pack church of the same ilk as the sweaty "God boxes" that were delivered to distant outposts of the Empire.