Sentence examples for outposts from inspiring English sources

But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.

The curious encampment at Dunstanburgh is one of eight outposts of the project, from the Outer Hebrides to Cuckmere Haven in Sussex.

Like the US and Canada (but unlike Europe and ex-British outposts including Australia) the Westminster parliament has stuck to the first-past-the-post voting system rather than one based on proportional representation: the candidate with most votes in a constituency wins.

It also believes it could win in outposts like Hastings and Rye, where it lost out narrowly to the Tories last time, if Lib Dems come back to the fold.

In response to the intercept the US closed a number of embassies and consulates over the weekend, temporarily shutting down 19 diplomatic outposts in the Middle East and Africa.

The ABC will restructure the old radio division, shut down five regional radio outposts and create a $20m digital investment fund.

There are also counter-terrorism outposts in Djibouti and Niger and covert bases in Ethiopia and the Seychelles which are serving as launching pads for the U.S. military to carry out surveillance and armed drone strikes.

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.

That summer saw the violation by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad of Obama's self-dubbed (or flubbed) "red line" on the use of chemical weapons, a coup in Egypt, the Edward Snowden revelations and an explosion of congressional interest in the September 2012 attacks on US outposts in Benghazi, Libya.

No rusted-on friends of Israel can defend these ugly pre-fabricated suburbs and outposts crammed with fanatics who appear to despise Palestinians and paint "Death to Arabs" on churches and mosques – and whose violence against Palestinians is now routine.

Israel's national bus carrier skirts Arab towns while serving Jewish outposts.