Sentence examples for spaces on the map from inspiring English sources

Now these foreign countries I had heard about in our geography class were more than empty spaces on the map.

I remember the day I knew that the white spaces on the map were the places for me.

In London in 1909 he defended his claim to have explored the last "white spaces" on the map of Tibet by pouring scorn on the achievements of the native pundits, and earned a deserved rebuke.

It was not so long ago that the Tibetan Plateau was seen as a region of little consequence, save to those few Western adventurers drawn to remote regions that the early 20th-century Swedish explorer Sven Hedin once called the "white spaces" on the map.

"It is telling that some townships in South Africa are just blank spaces on the map," says Brotton. "Mapping is becoming privatised, not even states have the vast resources necessary to compete, and inevitably the usual problem is that Africa comes very low down on the pecking order".

These men were fired by different impulses — religion, scientific inquiry and a thirst for fame — but they were not driven (at least not primarily) by a desire to stamp British imperial authority on the empty spaces of the map.

Add to that over 1,000 listed startups, accelerators and co-working spaces on the Mapped in Israel startup map and a bevy of investors and tech giants like Google and Microsoft paying close attention to the scene, making it one of the better contenders outside the U.S. American venture firms are slowly starting to take risks on startups in Europe, as well.

Native communities are often highly self-sufficient, and so their territories appear to be empty spaces on the maps of government officials who award dam and logging concessions.

"Their imprimatur helped us get our space on the map".

"That critical habitat is not just a space on the map.

Any country occupying America's space on the map would be likely to be unusual.