Sentence examples for distant territory from inspiring English sources

The unique manner in which the distant territory came to be part of Indonesia should mean that its departure, if it really comes, will set no precedent.

A short time later she journeyed to Alaska and published a collection of her magazine articles on that distant territory as Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago (1885).

Wild Beasts' recent single Wanderlust did contain the line "In your mother tongue what's the verb to suck?" – interpreted as a swipe at UK bands who sing in phoney US accents - but it sounded more like a skirmish on some distant territory than a charging off the barricades.

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

Reciprocal ST-segment depression in STEMI is often considered to be mirror-image changes or remote ischemia in a distant territory in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease [ 24, 25].

You will likely have many troops in your Capital, so you will be able to use the Admiral card to attack from here to a distant territory effectively.

There is a tendency to hold tycoons from distant territories in low regard in relation to football ownership.

Other investigators who circulated to the distant territories of the British Empire lost little time in recording the worldwide distribution of Silurian fossils.

They died so that the empire might live, but their placement on highly visible peaks in distant territories may have delivered its own message to newly incorporated peoples.

"We live in a bubble," he said, "whereby we are separated from the consequences of our actions, whether it be the pollution that we make or the wars we start in distant territories or where our food comes from.

This core of expansion used two different strategies towards the surrounding groups, known at the time as the Man, Yi, Rong and Di barbarians: the first strategy was to encompass, or "make Yi like Xia"; the second strategy was to push them out to even more distant territories.