As a vassal kingdom, Granada by itself was not a threat, but, when supported by the Muslims of Morocco, this last outpost of Islamic power in Spain caused great difficulty for the Christians.
RAF Alconbury (Cambs) Once a major USAF bomber and spy-plane base, this outpost of US power in the Cambridgeshire Fens is now home to an intelligence-analysis centre (along with nearby RAF Molesworth).
For most of the eight centuries from 1000 AD, it was an outpost of Venetian power.
He spends most of the movie looking as if a host of Muhammadan fanatics were invading not the outposts of colonial power but the innermost domains of his own trousers, and his reverence for the name of Harry Feversham would be easier to share if he didn't insist on pronouncing it "Hairy".
From 1521, Henry became an outpost of Charles V's imperial power, which at Pavia (1525), for the moment, destroyed the rival power of France.
In July, Moustafa brought another activist, Emad ad-Din al-Rashid, a former assistant dean at the Islamic Law College in Damascus, to meet Power at the Washington outpost of her U.N. office.
But another idea has unravelled, too, and it was one that had deeper roots in the empire's outposts than at the heart of power.
In the shifting Italian borders of the following centuries, Venice benefited from remaining under the control of the Roman Empire - increasingly as the furtherest Northwestern outpost of the now Constantinople centered power.
IKEA constitutes a sort of borderless nation-state, with seats of power, redoubts of conservatism, second cities, imperial outposts, creative hubs, and administrative backwaters.
In July, the government of the arid northwestern province of Gansu began construction of a wind power station in the former Silk Road outpost of Jiuquan, the first of seven 10-gW wind power bases planned by provincial authorities around the country.
