Sentence examples for on an outlying from inspiring English sources

I was out on a boat one day with my CIA Chief on an outlying island.

An Indonesian government expert, Syamsul Rizal, said it was possible that the increased volcanic activity could be linked to recent earthquakes that have rocked Sumatra Island, including one on March 28 that killed 600 people on an outlying island called Nias.

Its smiling face was even seen at the Cheung Chau bun festival, a 200-year-old tradition on an outlying island.

The other projectiles, possibly mortar shells, hit a roof on an outlying building and the ground about 10 yards outside the shrine's main wall.

About 34 people have been killed and 42 wounded in the violence, which began when a group of gunmen opened fire on an outlying settlement in the north of the city, local news agencies reported.

Ruth Newman was just a child living on an outlying ranch when the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 struck, but her memory of that day never faded.

Realizing that Chinese singers required training not just in singing but in ensemble work, language coaching, stylistic analysis and musical preparation, Ms. Zhou set up her elite opera center, the Zhou Xiaoyan Young Opera Singers Trainee Center on the fourth floor of an outlying block of the Shanghai Conservatory.

Joyce Johnson, the novelist's girlfriend at the time, remembered Frank carrying boxes of pictures: The first one I saw was of a road somewhere out west blacktop gleaming under headlights with a white stripe down the middle that went on and on toward an outlying darkness.

The two men set off for an outlying village on their errand and never came back.

Two hours after the noon prayer, tank and mortar fire from nearby Syrian army positions began to rain down on Houla and an outlying hamlet called Taldou, perhaps in response to an attack by rebel forces on an army checkpoint.

Vernon goaded Wentworth into an ill-considered, badly planned assault on the fort, an outlying strong-point of Cartagena, which Vernon refused to support with the fleet making specious excuses about the depth of the harbor.