In Egypt he is restless, bored by the remote posting and agitated that he might never experience the glory of battle.
There were many doctors, in all regions, who feared that once in a remote posting they would have to find their own replacement in order to be transferred.
Doctors in remote posting were very conscious of their disadvantage when it comes to mentoring and moving up the career ladder, and this was a major source of frustration.
— which has, for decades, fought the Turkish Army for constitutional rights and autonomy — leave their families for remote posts in the Qandil mountains, on the border between Turkey and Iraq.
Afterward, convinced that he was being followed by the R.S.P.B. on a trip to Scotland, he mailed himself a box of chocolate eggs from a remote post office.
These are not buses in the conventional sense: the postie is merely giving people a lift in his or her vehicle – often just a car – while doing the daily pick up and drop at remote post offices.
Anaktuvuk Pass boasts the most remote post office in the US and its Simon Paneak Memorial Museum celebrates Nunamiut culture and displays artefacts related to the tribe's history of semi-nomadic caribou hunting.
A Kazakh border guard has confessed to killing 14 fellow soldiers and a herder at a remote post near the Chinese frontier, prosecutors said Thursday, adding that hazing, or severe bullying, might have prompted the massacre.
Each new day brought her a fresh experience of workplace victimization, until eventually they told her she was being transferred to a remote post that would require a tortuous journey on a perilous road, plus her moving away from home.
In this remote post-Soviet hinterland, Jagr, at 36, is revered as the Second Coming (he played 32 games in Omsk during the N.H.L.'s 2004-5 lockout season), and his face has been ubiquitous throughout Russia in the months since he signed with Omsk.
Private Manning was a misfit as well in the Army, which he joined in the hope of gaining technical skills and an education, and which eventually sent him to Contingency Operating Station Hammer, a remote post east of Baghdad, where he had access to some of the nation's deepest military and diplomatic secrets.
