Sentence examples for outpost in the middle of from inspiring English sources

The capital relocated from the Ottomans' beloved Istanbul to Ankara, a provincial outpost in the middle of the Anatolian steppe.

"This is not an outpost in the middle of nowhere that is of marginal interest," said Amanda J. Dory, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for Africa.

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Since its origins as an island outpost in the middle of the Seine, the city owes some of its greatest advantages — its trading routes, military security and fertile farmland — to its riverside position.

There was a time not many years ago when Mott and a few side streets seemed to constitute a small Chinese outpost in the middle of a large Italian neighborhood.

The Academpark is not some random outpost in the middle of nowhere, but the latest part of a plan to revive Akademgorodok, the Soviet science town that was established here in 1957, and long since left to languish.

He had his start as a pilot by carrying mail and supplies to distant outposts in the middle of the Amazon, landing his hydroplane on the region's snaking uncharted rivers.

Small outposts in the middle of nowhere, as in Restrepo, with soldiers living medieval lives for months at a time.

ONE of the shrines for pizza aficionados in Connecticut, Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, has had the audacity to open its fifth outpost smack in the middle of Central Park Avenue in Yonkers, where Ricky's Clam House once stood.

This is the coastline of Ascension Island, a UK military outpost situated in the middle of the Atlantic.

Men like Colgate and Lewis Tappan were a deliberate counterforce to all that vice—"an outpost of evangelism in the middle of sin city," as Paul Johnson put it.