Sentence examples for remote former from inspiring English sources

This novel's hero journeys to return a woman's body to her family in a remote former Soviet Republic.

Within the hour they were piled into the back of trucks to leave the rehabilitation centre and be taken to a UN refugee centre in Bamberi, a safer part of this remote former French colony.

Sakhalin is a remote former penal colony where the sea freezes for four months a year and villagers have been known to sleep in tents pitched in their bedrooms when the heating fails.

Telluride is already a pilgrimage spot for film lovers, who mingled over Labor Day weekend with fly-fishing enthusiasts, mountain bikers and other worshipers in the church of high-end leisure, turning a remote former mining town into a holy city of movies.

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, Feb. 28 - Preliminary results in parliamentary elections here gave an unexpectedly lopsided victory to the ruling party on Monday, drawing a failing grade from the world's largest election-monitoring body and a storm of protests from the other five parties in this remote former Soviet republic.

By late 2004, the sculpture had been removed to a remote former industrial site called Union Point Park on the Oakland Estuary, opening to the public in 2005.

And on November 14th, the 50th birthday of Prince Charles will cast a spotlight on the most audacious rebranding yet attempted the attempt to transform the image of the heir to the throne.The death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997 and the public mourning it provoked underlined how relatively unpopular and remote her former husband had become.

From behind a desk in New York, it is easy for CDM officials to believe when companies like Grupo Terra affirm that the Hidro Xacbal Dam, "presents the possibility to provide a remote, forgotten, former war torn area...with essential infrastructure and the means to channel development projects in the area while respecting the lifestyle and the culture of local communities".

In one incident, in the remote west of former Soviet Georgia, a group of woodsmen found two capsules of the material which was emitting heat in a forest.

"Tall Man" tells the story of Cameron Doomadgee, an Aborigine who lived on remote Palm Island, a former penal colony in northern Australia.

Lastly, the new firmware paves the way for iOS and an Android remote with the former launching relatively soon.